North American implementation of bus transit is horrible (I don’t know about the rest of the world) but it is appropriate scale for smaller towns and routes, so we need to find a way to make it work. It seems like it’s been in a death spiral for decades where the worse it gets, the worse the clientele gets and the lower the prices everyone expects.

Maybe it’s something that doesn’t work well as a private company.

Or maybe at least the terminals should be publicly operated by the city or town they’re in. Where I live, there’s a focus on “transit hubs” where you try to bring different transportation modes together in one place for synergy. That probably has to be publicly owned

I’m a huge train fan, and firmly believe we can and should serve half the US population with high speed rail. But there’s always that other half the population, with much lower density, that should also have an alternative to cars. Buses, including intercity, really ought to work at that scale