You can see on the road that it takes up one lane like the cars and is equivalent to about 2.5 cars lined up accounting for gaps. Also the point of this post is that if public transport was normalized then this bus wouldn't have six people in it because half of these cars would be people on the bus instead.

On the road, 4 cars would take more space lined up one behind another.

I don't know what the law is where you live but i know what it is where i live, so excuse my weird metrics for a sec while i explain how wrong what you said is.

In order to facilitate proper reaction time for yourself as the driver, you must have about two "seconds" (as in if you stared at the road beneath the car in front of you, your car would be there in about two seconds) between your car and the one in front of you.

Meaning the faster the vehicles are, the larger the gaps, and if we're talking 4 vehicles, it's 3 gaps.

For maneuverability's sake, it's worth mentioning the "wave propagation" that happens during brake time, but I won't get into it.

We've only got busses. The climate control is usually pretty good though; decent AC in the summer and heated in winter. Just the occasional shitty driver that doesn't set it correctly.

Tbh the worst part is inconsolable crying babys. That's been pretty frequent this summer; but isn't usually a problem throughout the rest of the year. Otherwise people just keep to themselves, it's pretty peaceful.

The morning bus just sucks to get off, but I get on at one of the first stops so I pretty much always have a seat. I even nap most of the way there as it's a ~40min ride.

The ride home I've often gotta stand for the first 3-4 stops until I can get a seat. Then I can just peacefully watch youtube or scroll lemmy, ignoring the world around me for a bit.

For a flat $70/mo for unlimited rides; it's not a bad deal really. I'd rather this than driving and being frustrated dealing with the morons on the road; while paying significantly more between car payments, insurance, maintenance, and gas.

In individual cases, sure. But a well-designed city and public transport system should not be running skeleton capacities at daylight hours on the regular.