I wasn&#x27;t hitchhiking. I did look into getting a bike and, in fact, bought a skate board at some point. It didn&#x27;t pan out that way. Those details are not at all relevant to my point. The point is that even if you choose to live without a car and are willing to use public transit, the system can be so broken as to be functionally useless to you. Even saying &quot;Well, you should have gotten a bike.&quot; as some kind of completely unnecessary personal criticism of me lefthandedly acknowledges that the bus system was functionally useless to me. So, build a better system and you may see ridership go up.