And the comments are far more informative than the article.
In my neck of the woods, we used to have buses running ever half hour. Few years back they went to just hourly. So not convenient at all for folks trying to get to work. Gas prices fell, but not the fares. And the buses the transit system uses are fricking huge and are never full. I’ve never ridden on one that’s more than a third full.
They should have fewer omnibuses and more of the small kind.
I used to ride the bus every day, and it was great motivation to save for a car. It really wasn’t so bad, but you were certainly exposed to people who weren’t safe.
County paying transit consultants $12 million but can’t find $5 million to lift Metrorail cuts
A Tale of Two Toilet Paper Dispensers: Miami-Dade Public Transit
In a nearby town, they have a massive fleet of buses that have never contained more than a few people at a time... EXCEPT when they are transporting "youths" who for some reason are not taking the other massive fleet that is run by the school district.
(The district found a way to do forced busing and still convince the masses that it isn't forced busing. Such de facto racism is good when Democrats and "smart people" are in charge of things.)
Trips on the city buses when two or more feral youth decide to victimize polar bears is a real treat, which is the major reason why fewer older polar bears ride these particular buses.