[VyseofArcadia]

> They don’t help with congestion

Definitely not the point of these. In larger cities, bus transit is for reducing congestion without massive infrastructure investment. In smaller cities, bus transit is purely for helping people who can't/don't drive get to where they need to be.

The problem is, there is not enough ridership in smaller cities for a bus to be frequent or cover a wide area. This solves that problem, but it only works since congestion isn't a problem.

As soon as there enough people to worry about congestion, bus transit is better.

[beej71]

Also in larger cities, large busses are frequent. If my small town ran busses every 10 or 15 minutes, there'd be a lot more riders.