Public transit, use not realized
Public transit has a lot of pit falls. Public school bus, unsafe with no seat belts and driver's needing to spend more time watching kids then driving. Lack of public transit options outside of very large cities. Subidized to reduce costs while creating profit from one type misused in place of another. Rider safety in more then one way; physical, biological, and mental. The lead goal of public transit is to reduce the impact of traffic on the roads, which sounds like it should cost less to use public transit over driving your self. Far too much public transit is used for profit with little care about riders. Now in light of profit some forms work fine for profit as in the small number rider types like Taxi's. Taxi's don't really reduce impact of traffic on roads and in effect paying someone to drive you with the same impact of you driving your self and thusly should cost more then to drive your self. Bus use for use outside of town gets more costly to use ...