[NegativeK]

In most places I've lived, busses are for poor people. Because anyone else will pay whatever it takes to get a car and avoid something like a _three hour_ round trip for something 10 miles away. I'm not kidding; my work commute is 10 miles each way, in a city of way more than 1M, and it's 1.5 hours total for me to get to work on time.

I've lived in one place where they were great. Dense urban environments can do that, though. So nuh us busses can be great (the trains were even better), but it seems like the US has zero actual drive to make public transit not crap.

[mothballed]

I've lived in a couple places with public transit way faster and more efficient than cars.

But because it's public, people can't be easily kicked off. Once I was caught between a knife fight; another time a schizophrenic person started to aggressively trap me in the corner while going on an increasing paranoid tirade.

Not long after that I bought a bicycle.

[jeffbee]

A bicycle is pretty much always going to beat a bus over reasonable distances, on performance alone, not even counting the crazy people.