&gt; For $4 more than a bus<p>Depending on where you live, Uber&#x2F;Lyft can be a <i>lot</i> more expensive than a bus.<p>In Dallas, a monthly public transport pass costs $80. This comes with unlimited uses of the buses and trains for an entire month. Let&#x27;s say you work twenty days (four weeks) a month, with a trip each way. That amortizes to $2 a trip, less if you also use your pass for personal trips on weekends.<p>Lyft costs me about $11 on average to get me between home and work. If I were to take Lyft to and from work every day for a month, again assuming twenty working days a month, I&#x27;d be paying about $440 a month. That&#x27;s not $4 more; it&#x27;s $9 more. That&#x27;s 5.5 <i>times</i> how much I&#x27;d be paying for public transport. Again, that&#x27;s not counting using it for personal trips on weekends (here, the minimum is $5.70, including the trust &amp; safety fee).<p>If Uber&#x2F;Lyft is only $4 more than a bus in SF, then buses are way expensive there.