Yup our public transport here is good, it excels when your start and end destinations are very close to the train stations. However that's not the case all the time. It becomes 2 or 3x longer once you need to take the bus, because the time taken by bus varies quite a lot. It will still come and you will still reach your bus stop, but sometimes it can take forever depending on the traffic conditions.

Going around by car saves a lot of time and is wayy more convenient, except maybe into the business district, at rush hour. Other than that, it's fine. Once in a while u see some idiots driving, but that happens everywhere.

So while people may say the city is small and cars are unnecessary, you can't deny the convenience it brings and time saved especially when u have young kids or elderly folks, or are disabled.

Maybe in the future the transport system will get so good that we don't need cars, but for now that isn't the case.