Word: busful
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According to the MBTA, operating the Night Owl was, financially, a losing proposition—even more so than normal bus and subway services, both of which hemorrhage large amounts of money each year...
...cost the agency $7.53 on average to transport a Night Owl customer, compared with only $1.37 for a daytime bus rider, and no more than $1.40 for a subway patron (the actual price for a daytime bus ride is 90 cents and $1.25 for a subway fare...
...cannot justify an expensive service like that when we have regular bus routes that are overcrowded and crying out for more service,” said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo...
Francis, the late-night worker who rode the Night Owl, said that she remembered that ridership was comprised of “almost all young people” when she took it home from Jamaica Plain. She added that the whole bus was only about one-fourth full...
...Fortune.com • The July 7 London Blasts: A Firsthand Account A FORTUNE editor finds himself on a bus right behind the one that was bombed today...