Canada. Transit is no prize here either (I’d say it’s at least as bad as the US because we share the exact same urban planning philosophy) but somehow we manage and the buses are packed every day, and Canada consistently has higher transit ridership per capita despite having the same shitty, borderline nonexistent transit. Canada has a significantly lower population density compared to the US and especially compared to Europe so going by the American argument of why transit isn’t “practical” in the US, it should be even less practical for us, yet it works better here. We also don’t stigamitize bus ridership like y’all do, and people who take the bus every day don’t deal with “what, did you get a DUI?” remarks or mocked for being poor or from the ghetto. We have way fewer motivational alpha male podcasters making sweeping derogatory statements about anyone who don’t drive and asserting that it’s because you don’t have your life together (which you can solve by buying their course, of course). American entitlement and prejudice is why you don’t take the bus, don’t blame it on the bus itself.

Also, walk to the gym then. The idea of sitting on your ass driving in order to work out of all things is insane to me. You can probably ditch the gym membership entirely if you walked.