The driver, which instead gets an - at least in europe - somewhat awkward job, having to work two tiny shifts with a useless break in the middle. Source: Worked twenty years in public transport resource planning uptimization algorithms, and came to know how dearly the actual bus drivers hated those "work two times a day with a useless unpaid break in the middle". (Our algorithms would often generate them to e.g. arrive at fewer <something to optimise for>, but our clients would tell us "you can't make that many 2-part shifts, our bus drivers would kill us".