Empty bus
‘Empty bus’ (Chinese: 吉車遊街) is a term in Hong Kong that is used to describe bus routes that have low utilisation. Literally, it means a bus with no passengers.
It is caused due to repeating of routing with another transport means or bus routes, low frequencies, or low demand of routes.
Examples of routes:
NLB Routes 1, A35, KMB Routes 2D, 14H, 32H, 46, Citybus Routes 43M, W1, NWFB Routes 18X, 797M, MTR Bus Route K75, Cityflyer Route A20, Long Win Bus Airport Route A33, etc.
It is caused due to repeating of routing with another transport means or bus routes, low frequencies, or low demand of routes.
Examples of routes:
NLB Routes 1, A35, KMB Routes 2D, 14H, 32H, 46, Citybus Routes 43M, W1, NWFB Routes 18X, 797M, MTR Bus Route K75, Cityflyer Route A20, Long Win Bus Airport Route A33, etc.
Route A35 is a famous ‘empty bus’ route and it has recorded a loss of 5 million HKD.
empty bus syndrome
After you staff a Birthright Israel trip and all the participants are growing up, progressing in their careers, and moving on in their adult lives.
I really miss being on Birthright with all of the trip participants. They're all so grown up now and I miss the good old days when we were stuck on a bus together for 10 days . Yep, I've got Empty Bus Syndrome.