Rarely have I been on a bus with 100 riders outside of a few cities like Vancouver. Even there, it's only during limited periods of time per day. Most buses in

Rarely have I been on a bus with 100 riders outside of a few cities like Vancouver. Even there, it's only during limited periods of time per day. Most buses in most cities run with only a small fraction of the bus's capacity. Transit systems can try to bump up utilization by making buses less frequent but then that lowers overall ridership. Simply creating more capacity doesn't itself create greater ridership. I'd argue for 500 buses with 20 people if you really want people to change their behaviors as reliability and frequency is far more important for attracting riders with options than larger buses that are less frequent.