Buses are an incredibly important part of America's transit system. 3.8% billion bus rides occurred in 2024. Ed Glazer is an economics professor at Harvard and co-author of a paper on public buses for the Hutchkins Center at the Brookings Institution.>> On average, that means the an American takes 10 bus rides a year. But of course, it's not like an average person does 10 rides. It's more that you know there are some people who take hundreds and hundreds of rides and some people who take none.But as much as ...