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Getting Rural Residents Where They Need to Be

Story air date: Thursday, June 30, 2011

CRIS Rural Transit driver Bob Dunagan makes the rounds to Rantoul to pick up three riders headed to Champaign-Urbana.

The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District gives passengers about 10 million rides each year. But as Dan Petrella of CU-CitizenAccess reports, for Champaign County’s rural residents, getting where they need to go isn’t as easy as walking to the nearest bus stop.

(Photo by Dan Petrella)

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