to figure out how to use public transit..."
foreigners and ignorant people might believe that, but most others know that public transit doesn't even exist for millions of americans, and when it does, it costs so much and takes so much longer to get anywhere that it might as well not exist, except for affluent people who can enjoy it as a leisure activity, re; light rails, ferries...
that is the social plan, enacted with a vengeance since the end of war two, to destroy public transit and switch to the private form, with suburbanization and automobilisation finally making it next to impossible for people to survive without driving...
there are signs of change, but that's true of just about everything, and probably not noticed by, um... stupid, lazy folks?
fs