Chapel Hill Transit operates public bus and van transportation services within the contiguous municipalities of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the southeast corner of Orange County in the Research Triangle metropolitan region of North Carolina. Chapel Hill Transit began operation in August 1974. Total ridership, including fixed route, EZ Rider and Shared Ride Feeder service, for fiscal year 2005 was almost 6 million.
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“One thing’s certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won’t be in the chapel choir, now will he?”
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“For now the moon with friendless light carouses
On hill and housetop, street and marketplace,
Men will plunge, mile after mile of men,
To crush this lucent madness of the face....”
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