For every bus you can take ~50 cars off the road.
Doing things the right way requires civic-minded effort. The average American is just way too individualistic to make a dent in this problem.
Majority said that USA will be better if more people started working in factories, but a minority said USA will be better if /they/ worked in factories.
It's the whole "I got mine" mentality, where people are not willing to compromise on their own comfort for the greater good, yet they expect others to do so.
I don't think this is unique to the US, I think it's just very egregious there at the moment.