For me to use Public Transport here would increase my commute time to work by order of magnitude, not to mention all the places I go weekly that is not on a public transit stop or would require multiple line hops and be many times more time consuming than if I just drove directly their in my own personal vehicle
Public transport only works in area with High Population Density
It's true public transit will never really be valuable for extremely rural areas, but we should be working to ensure that in anywhere there's a significant quantity of people, that public transit is the cheapest and most convenient way to travel. Public transit isn't going to win by banning cars, it's going to need to win by improving lives.
I'm not sure what kind of population density you need to make public transport workable, but it's a blessing when you have it available. There's some sample math at the end of this article(https://www.ptua.org.au/myths/density/ - technical appendix) which concludes that you don't really need that high a density(it focuses on Melbourne), as long as people actually prefer to use the public transport service over their own cars.
Looking at my own home in the South Bay.
My 10 mile commute takes 15 minutes driving.
By public transit, it's walk five minutes to light rail, wait ten minutes, ride 50 minutes, transfer, wait ten minutes for the next bus, ride 15 minutes, walk 10 minutes.
Admittedly, 7x isn't quite an order of magnitude, but close enough.
I really don't see anyway to get busses economical down here unless you had much more traffic and higher density.
For me to go to work on the bus route I have to go pretty far away from my home to then work my way back due to the way the bus route flows.
or I can get in my car, drive to 10 mins traffic free, and be a work
Around here people use Public Transport because they have no other means of travel, not because on congestion or anything else
I don't feel buses are nearly as productive because of traffic. There are some nifty routes around Chicago where buses are allowed to drive the shoulder in traffic jams, and hence, do better than cars on travel time, but the north-south suburban expressway doesn't have that arrangement.