Champaign-Urbana MTD seeing new faces on buses

CHAMPAIGN – It started as a steady trickle about two or three months ago. Passengers fumbling for a dollar, asking bus drivers about how to get to a certain location.

Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus driver John Mangian said he gets about two or three a week, people who haven't ridden the MTD before, but who say they've decided to give up driving to work due to skyrocketing gas prices.

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