I have never been on a city bus in my life. I can’t even imagine it.
Been on trains a few times, though, and even subways.
Public transit is fine if you live in places like NYC and Chicago. Even Washington DC is OK if you live near a subway stop and don’t need to come home past midnight. But for the most part, Americans live in pleasant suburbs where the spacing of housing makes mass transportation impractical. And Americans don’t want to be Europeans. We love our big cars and our independence.
Rode city buses and cable cars in Frisco fifty one years ago. Cable cars were awesome, city buses convenient but slow. Have ridden the Silver Meteor train in ‘64 and have flown a few thousand miles including to Keflavik and back in a slow prop plane. I have no reason to ride mass transit now and don’t really expect to ever board a plane again.