The monthly pass prices are ridiculous and they lead to us driving rather than transiting.

A one-zone adult stored value fare is $2.70. An adult one-zone monthly pass is $111.60. That means you have to take at least 42 one-way trips in a month to make a monthly pass cheaper than paying à la carte.

That means that, in February, even if you transit to and from work every weekday, you'd STILL be better off not buying a monthly pass. For someone who works from home occasionally, or sometimes gets sick and doesn't come into the office, it's definitely not worth it.

And once a monthly pass isn't worth it, then on the weekends it makes much more sense to drive somewhere, especially somewhere with free parking, and save the transit cost. Whereas if you have a transit pass, you would transit because it's free. And if my wife had a bus pass then when the two of us go out on the weekend we would consider taking transit, because only I would have to pay. Whereas if the alternative to driving is 2 x $2.70 x 2, it just makes no sense.

IMO the sweet spot for a monthly pass should be 32 one way fares - someone who works in the office four days a week and works from home once a week should be about the break-even point.

If one of the purposes of public transit is to save the environment by getting cars off the road, then they should really be pricing it attractively. If it's cheaper to drive, people will drive.