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Bus Odyssey

Costing the commute

by Michael Betzold

posted 2/5/2011

Ditch your car and save $8,000 a year by riding the bus. That's what a recent Ann Arbor Transportation Authority press release suggests. The newly rich bus rider was assumed to have driven a mid-sized sedan 15,000 miles a year. At twenty-three miles a gallon, the fuel savings would come to $2,000 or so; a plump allowance for depreciation and maintenance added

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