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Top Stories: UTA Study Highlights Dallas' Public Transit Problem; A Border Family Reunion

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The top local stories this evening from KERA News:

A new study commissioned by Dallas officials shows the city has a ways to go in providing more frequent and more equitable public transportation to people across the city, and especially low-income people. 

Shima Hamidi worked on that report and is the director of the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Hamidi sat down and discussed it with KERA's Justin Martin.

Other top stories this evening:  

Dozens of families separated by their immigration status briefly reunited this weekend near El Paso. For a few hours Sunday morning, border patrol agents stood back while families embraced through the Sunland Park border fence -- a long row of rust-colored columns that divide the U.S. and Mexico. Reporter Mallory Falk reports

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Gus Contreras is a digital producer and reporter at KERA News. Gus produces the local All Things Considered segment and reports on a variety of topics from, sports to immigration. He was an intern and production assistant for All Things Considered in Washington D.C.