My gut feeling is that it's hard to tell, and could be case-by-case thing. It might depend on many things, like whether the bus actually goes anywhere useful,

My gut feeling is that it's hard to tell, and could be case-by-case thing. It might depend on many things, like whether the bus actually goes anywhere useful, or the would-be passengers would still have to travel far from their stop (and would prefer to drive a car, as bus doesn't solve their commute problem). Would be especially problematic in areas with single-family houses spaced far apart. Very infrequent bus service may also be a factor that would sway would-be passengers to drive cars instead, but it would be hard to justify more buses on the line. Well, I'm not a city planner, just trying to imagine the potential problems. Bet people who deal with this would know better.