Yes, people have orders of magnitude better comfort in metros and buses. You can exit the city metro or the city bus every minute. You can sit, stand up and walk in them. The buses for longer distances have the toilets and can stop whenever somebody really needs it.
This is not universally true.
For example, here in New York, the express bus from Staten Island has at least 45 minutes of no stops and has no bathroom (just a regular bus). If you do somehow convince the driver to let you off, good luck finding a bathroom anywhere near the places you'd probably find yourself. Some of the Subway trains (such as the N train between Canal St and Atlantic Ave) run express and is about 10 minutes non-stop (and you're a long trek from a bathroom at either end).
Plus, try going to the bathroom in the first or last 30 minutes of a flight. You have a reasonable chance of being arrested.
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This is not universally true.
For example, here in New York, the express bus from Staten Island has at least 45 minutes of no stops and has no bathroom (just a regular bus). If you do somehow convince the driver to let you off, good luck finding a bathroom anywhere near the places you'd probably find yourself. Some of the Subway trains (such as the N train between Canal St and Atlantic Ave) run express and is about 10 minutes non-stop (and you're a long trek from a bathroom at either end).
Plus, try going to the bathroom in the first or last 30 minutes of a flight. You have a reasonable chance of being arrested.
It's totally true about NYC, you picked an extreme case of the SI express bus. And if you're sick the bus driver will drop you off.
And that's total BS. The long trek is less than 5 minutes on either side.