> The cyclists make sense, but where I live you can picture the bus with one guy on it. That was my city around 7 years ago. Public transit was very underutili

> The cyclists make sense, but where I live you can picture the bus with one guy on it. That was my city around 7 years ago. Public transit was very underutilised and the general mental image people had of it was that it was for children, old and poor people. Then the city councils in the area got together and started to really put money into improving the routes and service. It was hard to justify politically because of the existing attitudes, but seven years later, almost all of the buses I see have >50% occupancy with mostly regular middle-class people, even outside of rush hour. During rush hours have to send extra buses as they fill up fast. So I think part of it is to break out of the cycle of public transit providing shitty service, people not using public transit because of shitty service, and the service getting shittier because there's even less political will to put money into it with fewer passengers.