You just pedal until you get there, several good routes are available. I do it twice a week, on average.

There’s a bunch of different qualities transit can have – mass, rapid, and frequent are perhaps the most interesting three.

There’s various different combinations of these: HOT-lanes (HOV/toll) can allow for personal rapid transit (at least until they too get congested); any form of bus or train is mass transit – but may not be rapid, or may only be “rapid” compared to slower moving traffic; express busses that use HOV or other dedicated lanes (then called BRT, or Bus Rapid Transit) or any other grade-separated train/monorail/tram are both mass and rapid. And then there’s the Jetsons-esque personal rapid transit (PRT) – pods that race around on tracks – which are rapid, but not mass.

Then there are commuter-focused systems – commuter rail and busses – which are great for moving masses of people in the morning and evening rush hours, but which are generally useless for anyone else trying to get around town at other times while living a car-free life; even if they’re mass and rapid, they lack the frequency and coverage necessary for that.

Us city/urbam types tend to want something that is rapid, frequent – and also has good coverage. And we often don’t necessarilly care if it’s actually “mass” or not (though it’s definitely more fun for people-watching!). But often city planner-types focus on just moving masses of folk around during rush hour, so tend to prioritize mass over the others; whether you can get from your ‘hood to the cinema across town at 7pm on a Saturday isn’t something they’re all too concerened about.