Bus firms are not funded by tax payers they are funded by shareholders and banks and so have to make money. if a local shop closes who comes in to rescue? TFGM can only ask for other firms to step in but unless they can make money they will have to ask TFGM to fund them and doing this takes money out of the pot for other Service if people don`t use the buses to a point they pay for themselves we are getting to the point we cant ask for tax payers to fund them. in some parts of the UK there no buses on Sunday or after 7pm due to there better uses for the tax payers money.