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Aaron Burger may be right that public transit does save people money and that for a teen who's using it to go to parties or a friends' house and it doesn't matter when they get there ("Teen discovers joys of public transit," Aug. 20 commentary).

What about those teens who have to use it to go to work or classes, or for working adults for whom it does matter when they show up?

Sure you have more than 400 bus routes and more than 1,500 buses but a lot of them don't run after 9 p.m. What if the party starts after that, or you get off work after that hour? If only the bus ran from 5 a.m. until 1 a.m.

If buses ran more often and entered all of the middle-class neighborhoods so people wouldn't have to walk a mile just to take the bus and you installed exclusive bus lanes to make things faster, then people just might use public transportation.

Sebastian Santiso, Germantown