If you're wondering why people use public transportation more in some countries than others: this is the departure board from the train station of a 14K pop city in a hilly part of Switzerland (Einsiedeln, SZ).
Not included: the 9 bus lines that also stop in front of that same train station.
And that's not an outlier, this is fairly average in my experience living here!
@delroth To be fair a nontrivial fraction of people arriving there by train come there to transfer to a bus (going somewhere south like Studen or {Unter,Ober}iberg, which are all much smaller than Einsiedeln, probably even in total).
@robryk I don't actually know -- Einsiedeln definitely has an above average amount of local tourism and the area around the station seems very "alive" in terms of local businesses. Not sure if there are good stats available at that granular a level :-)
@delroth My anecdotes come from observing people leaving the train at random mornings in the winter, mostly on weekends; I'd've estimated at least 30ish percent to be going directly to the bus stop.
That said, that doesn't affect the outcome: it's easy to get to/from Einsiedeln. It only implies that the outcome is likely easier to achieve if the bus network is there already.
