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PNW sadly enough. The fuckin neolibs running the area are using public transit to virtue signal how green they are without actually spending the money to make it actually effective. Gotta look good, so there's multiple 15min bus lines, but it only covers a couple square miles, so nobody wants to pay the $2 when they could just walk.
I almost moved to Seattle a few years ago. I loved Seattle, but I wanted to explore what was outside of Seattle. I could tell pretty quickly that the state of Washington wanted to consolidate it's tax dollars in Seattle as much as possible to the detriment of the rest of the state that wasn't Seattle.
More tax dollars get spent where more of the taxpayers are. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Washington_population_density_2020.png
Beyond that simplification I can't really address your point because it's quite vague. Public transit has been a fight for a long time, in part due to loud anti-tax lobbyists and NIMBYs fighting infrastructure at every step.
You're not wrong. It's also not helped that they look for any excuse to cut service, like they cut service during the '08 crash, took nearly a decade to bring it back to something close to what it was, only for it to get cut back even farther during COVID. There used to be a bus between the train station and the bus station, but that got cut back in '17 for unknown reasons. Heaven forbid they actually help people with their public service.
They say they don't want to expand the lines because nobody rides it, but that's only because their timetables and routes are shit. The first bus goes by my neighborhood at 6:30a and it's always packed to standing with people who start work at 9am. But I guess people being willing to stand on a bus going 50mph is "nobody".