And once again, you intentionally miss the point of owning your own vehicle. Freedom of choice! You choose your time of travel, your route of travel, your companions, (or none), your music (or none) the cleanliness of your companions, all those things which are dictated by those who are attempting to force people to use a mode of transportation that those ‘in charge’ think is best. (Not the one that those doing the forcing use themselves, of course). Buses are for the ‘little people’. 

LTD managers for example, are too important to use the bus to go about their daily business. They arrive at bus accidents in LTD provided vehicles, even though the bus routes could get them there. They attend meetings about the city using LTD vehicles, not the bus. They could plan ahead and use the bus, but that is too difficult for such busy important people. The ‘little people’ can easily do it, of course.

Mass transit is for the "masses" not the intelligentsia.  I choose to ride like my "betters".