Not when it works well. I live about a mile from work. My kid goes to school perhaps 2mi from home. Mass transit has made it very easy for my family of three

Not when it works well. I live about a mile from work. My kid goes to school perhaps 2mi from home. Mass transit has made it very easy for my family of three to downsize to one car. (We are not means-limited. It's fantastic to not have the extra crap to deal with from a second car.) When there's a thunderstorm or excessive ice, or I need to get home faster for whatever reason, the bus is great. But: I happen to live right off of a major bus corridor, so there's a bus every five minutes or so. We use Lyft to fill in the gaps if something comes up that requires both adults to drive somewhere. Mass transit plus a little bit of easily-available ride sharing _can_ be significantly better than car ownership. But...