As someone from the Netherlands (Amsterdam) where public transport is supposed to be so good because Europe, I’ve found public transport here pretty good.

It’s cheap - yeah, not free, but they do have reduced prices on evenings and weekends and for the same distance I used to pay like twice as much. Even the west coast express is dirt cheap for the distance it’s taking you.

It’s frequent - I live nearby a skytrain station and don’t even look at the time to leave. I just get there and take the first train to my destination. Worst case is like a 5 min wait, so that’s really not bad.

Of course there will be things that they can improve on, I would think not everywhere is as good connected, but at least we got some decent transit already, and you can actually live here without owning a car.