Who is paying you $10/h to stay home for an extra 15m before work? Or does your job pay you extra for showing up before you're scheduled?

Comparing travel time to your hourly rate is a nonsense argument because you cannot practically monitize that time.

Alternatively, you could look up the travel time by car, and realize that is all wasted time. You can bring a laptop and work on a train. That is not possible when driving.

If you drive an hour a day that's costing you $10 of lost productivity, plus the $5 or so of gas, and the insurance, depreciation, and wear on your vehicle, all in all, it costs significantly more than the transit ticket.

You must be a prime, USAmerican specimen to expulse such rambling against public transport.

Buses move more people per square foot. They are exponentially more efficient. So having greater adoption across the board is a net gain, even for car drivers.

I'm making way more than $10/hr but here's the thing: I'm only paid 35 hours a week.

I could spend the rest of it furiously masturbating in a bus and not lose a single cent.

Besides, it's easier to jerk off in a bus than while driving a car.