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ars · on Aug 11, 2009

That poster is inaccurate, it shows far too many cars, and far too many people on the bus.

You can fit 4 people in a car, but you can not load a bus completely full or no one will be realistically able to use it.

So the poster should have between 1/4 and 1/8 the number of cars on the screen.

100k · on Aug 11, 2009

I take it you don't ride buses. They are often completely full in rush hour, including people standing.

Meanwhile, most cars have only one person in it. Maybe an average of 1.5. You could have a carpool with 4 people in it, but I think that's rare compared to single passenger vehicles.