No - bus routes are ephemeral. People won't build businesses and apartment buildings near them, or arrange their lives around them unless the city is blanketed

No - bus routes are ephemeral. People won't build businesses and apartment buildings near them, or arrange their lives around them unless the city is blanketed in frequent bus lines (which is a huge investment itself). Because a bus route can be changed in a day, they don't have the attraction of a subway station that is going to be there no matter what the budget looks like.