I still recall the astonishment of my non-Jewish DIL working at Beth Israel hospital in NYC when she encountered a “Shabbos elevator”. Yes, it stopped at every floor and you didn’t push buttons.
Someone told me when I first came to Montreal that in the days that McGill still had Saturday classes the observant Jewish students would have pre-torn their bus tickets, then gotten on and off at a stop that other people were getting on and off at. I never quite understood the logic of this. You are not allowed to spend money. Was it the case that bus tokens were a little too close to money and tickets were not? Once more, I am at a loss to understand the religious mentality. But it seems to me that even if you walk to the alley, there are many aspects of bowling that would violate shabbos law.
There is no logic to it. Jews have had thousands of years to come up with justifications for doing whatever they want to do, anyway. That’s why we make such good lawyers.
I’m sure a Jew somewhere has a talmudic justification for eating nothing but bacon cheeseburgers.
I’m not sure how the bus tickets and tokens work, but there may be a difference if the bus ticket is a proof of purchase, not actual currency. In any case, from an Orthodox point of view you’re not allowed to ride on a bus on a Shabbos, regardless of how you pay for it.
This is an uninformed and somewhat offensive view of the Halachic process.
However, I should point out that the prohibition of mixing meat and milk doesn’t apply to non-kosher meat, so if you’re eating bacon anyway, you might as well eat it with cheese.