This, too, depends on the transit system, etc, and also your experience using transit. My bus, for example, runs every 5 minutes during peak hours. If I miss

This, too, depends on the transit system, etc, and also your experience using transit. My bus, for example, runs every 5 minutes during peak hours. If I miss it I either walk to the next stop, which is a transit centre, or just wait. In fact, I've frequently watched the bus turn the corner and pass my stop while I've been walking there. I'm pretty sure that the proximity to a transit centre is a major reason that my experience with the bus has been so good. Not to mention working in a place that is accessible without transfering to a different route. Someone who isn't near a transit centre and/or doesn't work downtown, at least in my city, will have a much worse time. My girlfriend, for example, used to like 8km away from her work (about a 10 minute drive) needed to take three different buses and an hour and a half to do the same trip by transit.