> Why wouldn’t it work in the suburbs? The number of cars per hour during most of the day on a suburban street is commonly around one. If a bus runs that frequ

> Why wouldn’t it work in the suburbs? The number of cars per hour during most of the day on a suburban street is commonly around one. If a bus runs that frequently it would have one passenger and all you've done is replace one midsized car with one large bus at significant expense. If the bus runs less frequently than that it would have zero passengers because people will buy a car and drive it themselves rather than wait that long for a bus. This is already being somewhat generous by assuming that people would be willing to wait the balance of an hour for a bus. For mass transit to actually work you want service every five or ten minutes.