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Everything and nothing. It depends on one's interest or alertness to perceptions and surroundings. One specific thing I learn every time I ride a bus or streetcar is the minutia of people's lives, their emergencies, their stresses, a lot of things I'd rather not learn; but they talk loudly into their cell phones about personal things. They swear and threaten people on their cell phones. Subways are potentially quieter.
We have a bunch of new electric buses on rails. Not a lot of cities still have them the rails. Anybody else still have streetcars on rails?
This is a nice image. So I learned that sitting on a bus when it starts is
Like being inside the stomach of
A growling beast