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Title: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: Mark A on August 24, 2026, 17:21:37
Turning this article over in the back of my mind for a bit.

https://humantransit.org/2020/04/whats-wrong-with-an-empty-bus.html (https://humantransit.org/2020/04/whats-wrong-with-an-empty-bus.html)


Title: Re: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: grahame on August 24, 2026, 17:55:26
Turning this article over in the back of my mind for a bit.

https://humantransit.org/2020/04/whats-wrong-with-an-empty-bus.html (https://humantransit.org/2020/04/whats-wrong-with-an-empty-bus.html)

This addresses so many of the questions that people wonder about.


Title: Re: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: GBM on August 25, 2026, 08:40:07
An empty bus makes an extremely happy driver!


Title: Re: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: grahame on August 25, 2026, 08:48:22
An empty bus makes an extremely happy driver!

And if seen on a permanent basis all the time on a diagram leads to an unemployed one!


Title: Re: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: Mark A on August 25, 2026, 09:01:55
Ah, it's the diagram that ends up unemployed: the bus can up sticks.


Title: Re: Article: 'What's wrong with an empty bus'
Post by: GBM on August 25, 2026, 11:29:50
An empty bus makes an extremely happy driver!

And if seen on a permanent basis all the time on a diagram leads to an unemployed one!
I believe there is a national shortage of PCV and HGV drivers!
Our only empty ones were generally the very early morning and late evening ones on subsidised routes.



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