Public transport?
The U,S. state I live in is larger in area than the entire area of England alone. The population is 1/10th as many as live in only London. Most if not all people who so easily say "public transportation" are 100% clueless of the distances and cost involved to create a "public transportation" system to serve that area. Of course those same people would likely not care if we had to walk and carry everything on top of our heads.