Cause they live somewhere where public transit is treated as a last thought thing for "the poors". When public transit is designed as a method of moving people, rather than a last thought, it gets much wider adoption. Because it's freaking great to not have to drive.

In my first job i used to work for a property management company. The owner had her office in the lavish flat of her parents in an upper class area of the city. When the mother of her asked, how i make it to work and i answered by subway. Her answer was something like "I couldn't do that. It is always so dirty."

Fuck rich people.

In some areas, public transit can also be dangerous, with robberies, assaults, stabbings, sexual harassment and sexual assaults frequently making the news. As someone who used to live in Chicago, I wouldn't recommend anyone taking public transit at night there unless you absolutely have to.

I tried making it more a part of my routine, because I had a bus stop in my neighborhood and the buses stopped charging a fare. I figure it was a good way to travel around town for free. The times weren't great, but I was using it for little trips. One time a neighbor saw me waiting for the bus and called to make sure I was okay, that there wasn't some weird emergency that meant I couldn't drive... Yeah, no, just wanted to take public transit.

A few months later, they removed the bus stop by me. It's 3/4 mile of steep hill away now, so I'm back in my car full time. Oh well, I tried.

It costs me about 25 minutes of parking to catch a bus to the city while reading, have my meeting and take my time, then pay for the bus back home with a grand total of around 7 minutes walking.

Nearly door to door chauffeur that is cheaper than driving myself. Who's too good for that?

It's not that I think I'm too good for public transport, I just absolutely hate being near other people, especially ones I don't know. It's enough to endure 8 hours of office work, I'd rather be a hobo than commute.

I do own a e-bike as well as an EV, but I can only cycle to work pretty much half of the year, because snow/slush/ice, and even during summer and autumn, I take the car on days I'm going somewhere else than home straight from work (shop, gf, friends).

Public transport with closed separate sitting "boxes" is what it would take for me.