More buses means more drivers, and salaries are probably the biggest expense here
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Self driving buses on fixed routes with special infrastructure put in by the city to help out might be the lynch pin here.
Self-driving buses might be great, but there's no point in waiting for them to be invented when there are such large gains to be made today from better and more frequent bus service, and increased efficiency/reduced pollution (from both ICE and electric buses).
I completely agree. Instead of adding to the ever-expanding pavement, we could use that money smarter for free or greatly reduced public transit, and tons of it.
It's not about waiting for them to be invented, but making them cheap enough to buy. And by cheap enough, I'm including labor.
As for the size of transit budgets, and how incompetent most American transit agencies are, that's another orthogonal issue.