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Letter: Paying for cars would be cheaper than bus service

A Gainesville Connection bus drops off seniors at the Fair Street Neighborhood Center one morning in July 2017. The fixed-route bus service is a service of Hall Area Transit. - photo by Scott Rogers

Hall Area Transit — A Gainesville Connection bus drops off seniors at the Fair Street Neighborhood Center one morning in July 2017. The fixed-route bus service is a service of Hall Area Transit. - photo by Scott Rogers

RE: headline May 29: “Hall Area Transit may lose $548K.” Let’s do the math. According to HAT, the 2016 expenses were $1.4 million. So I’m thinking 2018 expenses will probably be at least $1.5 million.