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MORENO VALLEY, Calif. _ Every day, five days a week, Babette Garcia drives her Hyundai Santa Fe 100 miles, spending at least four hours in the car so that she can work eight hours behind a desk in Anaheim.
Every bit of her life that is centered on her two children or her Moreno Valley home must be done Saturdays, when her husband is not there because he's working, and Sundays, when she says she spends a lot of time telling him that they own a lawnmower.
The accident last week between a freight train and the Metrolink train that shuttles some of her neighbors into Orange County is just another reminder to her and thousands of Riverside and San Bernardino county residents that they face massive hurdles every day just to get to work.
The hurdles are, of course, other people who are trying, more or less, to get to the same place to do, ...