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We'll all plant trees Thanx SVOboy

Originally Posted by TestDrive

Assuming things work the same in Poland as in the USA (yeah, right.)

If more people buy tickets than the buss will hold, they add another bus to the run. (Worse for the environment than you taking the car.)

If more people buy tickets than the train will hold, they add another car. (Better for the environment than you taking the car.)

Only as many tickets can be sold as there are seats in the bus. When I take the long distance bus I see 5-10 people at every stop begging the driver to let them in. They say they'll pay the full price of a ticket even though they'll have to stand for hours. But the driver isn't allowed to let more people on than there are seats, for safety reasons (as opposed to a city bus). The funny thing is that if the company sent out a second bus to collect all of those who couldn't get on the first, they'd double their profit. But there is no second bus. Only once was there a second bus, 5 minutes after the first, but this was before a superlong holiday weekend and another two buses would not have been too many. The second bus is needed every Friday, but it just doesn't happen.

The train is a different situation: if more tickets are sold, then there are more people in each car, not more cars. The national operator's policy: "Why give them more cars, when they'll fit in less?"