Empty City Bus

These precious moments of silence are like a golden hour to the tired driver, who at the end of the day, having endured endless chatter and mindless minions packing themselves this way and that over every inch of the bus, has finally some room to breath and the privacy for an intimate moment with his lumbering metal companion. The features of a transit bus are geared for operation on regular urban or suburban bus routes, with multiple defined stops, in a commuting or short-distance leisure role. This is as opposed to all-seated inter-urban or long-distance coach public transport; shuttle buses; demand-responsive buses such as paratransit, or private-hire bus or coach operations. Increasingly, transit buses are built as low-floor vehicles. The operating area of a transit bus may also be defined as a geographic metropolitan area, with the buses used outside of this area being more varied with buses purchased with other factors in mind. Some regional-size operators for capital cost reasons may use transit buses interchangeably on short urban routes as well as longer rural routes, sometimes up to 2 or 3 hours. Often transit bus operators have a selection of 'dual-purpose' fitted buses, that is standard transit buses fitted with coach-type seating, for longer-distance routes. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=119066