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‘You Get To Meet People, Work, Sleep’
We’re On Interstate 75, pulling onto Interstate 4. It’s 7:20 a.m., and the bus is right on schedule.
Ella Chinea of Wesley Chapel is talkative. She says she takes the bus for one main reason. The price of gasoline.
“I’ve been taking the bus for about a year now,” she says. “I have more money to go to McDonald’s.”
And there’s one more reason.
“I get to talk to my friends.”
Everyone who gets on at the Crossroads Community Church stop on County Line Road is chummy.
Nell Penny sits with Chinea. The two have a good commuter friendship.
Both work downtown and walk to work from the downtown bus stop.
“I take the bus for the convenience,” she says. “You get to meet people, work, sleep.”
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