I see loads as I run around BH a lot....they're mostly empty, have 1-2 passengers at most, and those passengers are almost always OAPs. Must be losing a fortune on them.
Saw people getting on and off a bus in Burgess Hill today. Looking at the likely age profile of the passengers, I doubt a single one of them was paying for their trip. I suppose that's better than usually seeing large, EMPTY buses pootling around town chucking out great clouds of diesel, which...