[JoeAltmaier]

Public transit can work for predictable, regular trips. But most busses I've ever been on have been nearly empty. The theatre of supporting public transit (busses anyway) is expensive too.

To replace cars significantly, busses would have to run on most main streets in a regular grid pattern over the entire city over the entire day. Nobody does that. Instead they run irregularly over favored routes (hotspot to hotspot). Which gains some riders at some times of the day.

I'm not sure busses are even an ecological gain in most cases.