We should be able to talk about how one dynamic of a society impacts another, without having to extend that to a universal moral claim about whether an inanimate object aligns with the forces of good or evil.
Employers like that parents are able to come into the office early and not have to schedule their work day around school transportation
Employers have much more power than labor does, in deciding how the US operates
Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that even in a culture that otherwise prefers cars to an unreasonable degree (and, as you mentioned, has a tinge of racial stigma around school buses), we nonetheless think of buses as the default mode of school transportation
When did I say mass transportation is bad?
We should be able to talk about how one dynamic of a society impacts another, without having to extend that to a universal moral claim about whether an inanimate object aligns with the forces of good or evil.