Education seems to have worked

I've seen a few of those on T.A.

Education seems to have worked ? .... Pity London Transport didn't !!

What do you mean, David in Brisbane? I haven't heard any complaints.

TfL (or predecessor) last ran a full-ish bus service on Christmas Day in 1979.

They had a study this year considering options for possible future services on Christmas Day. Patronage on Boxing Day is roughly equivalent to 80% of a normal Sunday or over 3 million passengers. They forecast only 1.2 million passengers if they ran a full Sunday service on Xmas Day and also looked at options of thinning frequency or only running a quarter of the routes. None came close to the required benefit to cost ratio.

We're very sorry our cultural norms don't meet Australian standards.

It's not about being a "cultural norm" or meeting "Australian standards".
For many people lower down the socio economic scale, public transport is their only means to get around, and like water and electricity, could such be deemed a necessity of life. Social isolation and loneliness is a growing issue in our big cities. One would think at Christmas time that enabling less fortunate people to come together with loved ones would be in the minds of authorities.
Then, of course, you have that whole other argument of living in a modern pluralist society, with people who may not celebrate Christmas, wondering why this day is different to any other. Doctors, nurses, police and fire fighters, all work on Christmas Day, so it does seem a little anachronistic.

Anyhow, my comment was purely a sarcastic play on the word "worked" as used in the original post.
....and you guys bite better than a shark off Bondi Beach. Merry Christmas all.

True not everyone celebrates Christmas, so shutting down all services completely does not seem fair to many people.

Not everyone celebrates Christmas, true, but even those who don't, usually have Christmas off work. It is a statutory holiday, so to speak. No doubt most people have learned how to deal with this one day of inconvenience.

I propose we shut down internet service for 24 hours next Christmas and see how people react.
....(be quite nice actually, considering 'disconnection' holidays are a growing travel trend)