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PT can't get people places because of all the cars... (And the underfunding and poor engineering)
That is false. Pt can't get places because it doesn't even try. The places where there are a lot of cars we need to do something of course, but the real problem is the long tail of places it doesn't go. I consider less that a bus every 15 minutes not going: nobody who can afford a car has time to waste on such bad service.
How are buses supposed to get anywhere when they are blocked by cars?? There's a reason most places (that aren't car dependent) have bus lanes. There's places it doesn't go because there's not enough public transport. And there's not enough public transport because there's no room for it, because places are filled with cars.
They are not blocked by cars most places they should go. suburbs with no traffic are dense enough to support bus transport with reasonable frequencies, but they don't get it.
There are a few roads where buses are blocked by traffic. However those roads have (or would if the buses would actually go anyplace other than those roads) enough demand that they should have a fully grade separated train on those routes (or often just off those routes and no service at all on the road itself - get the transit closer to where people want to be)