Comment Re:Well there's the problem... (Score 1) 201
Beg to differ all you like, having lived in one of those countries most of my life and another of them for a number of years, I'm not impressed.
Certainly it affects all those things. The drivers get a decent wage, the schedules and routes mean they run all day, and often all night, when purely commercial operations would not operate outside busy hours and routes, and unlike the unlicensed systems you mention, they tend to have stops with electronic countdowns to when the busses are due.
In Britain they partially "deregulated" the busses in the 1980s, and the services got worse and more expensive.
As I said, your opinion is prejudice, not reality.