[color:"orange"]Dammit ! I didn't win![/color]
Tja - life is hard; in this thread winning is not a matter of luck, but has to be earned by - arguing, or argumenting? (I am not sure about the word here.)

Anyway, IMO, an adequate and accepted public transportation system that achieves success over private transportation would have to

- have minimum comfort (not selling more tickets than you have seats (and for the same price) as is custom in todays trains in Germany);

- be cheaper than a car ride, if several people travel together;

- commute in decent intervals in a grid system, in order to achieve acceptable travel time compared to POV;

- conceptually go beyond busses and trains (could include taxis, for example, especially for times of low traffic - rather than having no service available at those times).

Other features may have come to your mind...

I obviously have no lucky hand in choosing inspiring topics - so I cede my place to whoever wants to bring forward a topic.

Otherwise, this will be just another dead thread.

In times of crisis it is of the utmost importance not to lose your head (Marie Antoinette)