Depends if it's full or not. I live in a city with decent public bus transport. Outside of rush hour those buses are just mostly empty and sometimes we have a grid lock of empty buses.
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The bus has 33 people on it? Even buses in Korea don't get that packed in most places.
Russian here, the main routes are always packed here (esp during rush hour)
Doesn't matter, if it was carrying 25% of the people that the cars are it'd be baller.
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In my experience (lived in four countries, ~30 cities / towns), public transport just feels unsafe. It’s always a choice between crazies shouting, groups of teenagers playfighting and blasting their mobile phones on full volume or just the good old rapey stare from strangers. I’d rather not be exposed to all the worst elements of society at close quarters in a metal tube I can’t escape from.
City seems to have some bias, if mostly the worst elements drive public transport.
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I talk as a person who rode the bicycle and walked more than driven a car that in a typical city centre designed for cars I prefer to live poluting with my car rather than die hit by one while riding the bicycle in a hurry to work.
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Sure, but I'm not going to get on any conveyance with a bunch of strangers if I can avoid it.
Walk > Cycle > Tram > Train > Car > Bus.
Buses always seem like the worst possible option from a personal standpoint.
I don't feel like you can rank all of these on the same level, they aim to solve different problems in different contexts.
I'm not going to walk across the country, I'm going to take a train if possible, or a plane if the trains don't exist or I'm on a really tight schedule. But I won't take a train, a plane, or even a bus to go a couple blocks to the corner store, I'll walk. If it's storming, however, I might take the bus or a tram despite the short distance and the wait for it to show up.
If I'm going eight blocks to a doctor's appointment and it's nice out, I might bike, unless it's raining literal cats and dogs, because then I'll absolutely leave super extra early and walk so I can pet each and every one of them on the way (and still be late, because priorities).
If I'm going to visit a nearby city, I might take a train or a bus, but if I'm moving to a nearby city, I'm going to rent a moving truck and drive. It's all contextual.
From my experience bus is carrying just the driver