(25 Dec 2014, 2:45 pm)Jimmi wrote Be lucky you managed to find a taxi willing to pick you up today.

Could you imagine how much you'd have to pay bus drivers to work Christmas day, it's probably tricky enough to get them to work boxing day and I imagine the demand for a bus service on Christmas day is almost non existent so they would be running at major loss.

Would like to see some more buses on boxing day, especially from Arriva who provide no services at present.

Hit the nail on the head, here.

I went out last night to Park Lane for a photo of an odd working, and must have seen at least 15 buses between 18:00 and 18:30, and not a single bus had more than three passengers on-board. I shared the 9 (double deck allocation) from Stadium of Light to Park Lane with just one inebriated man, and it left with nobody... Almost every 'E' service I saw carried nothing but fresh air, too.

Whether it's because people have gotten used to having a relatively poor service over the festive period or simply because the demand is not there, buses are running around empty as it is and it's not feasible for bus operators to run a normal weekday service over this period.