This gets to the essence of their problem. They want every thing to be like college. If someone doesn't want the college lifestyle, well, that person must simply be wrong! So much for college being about expanding one's mental horizons and learning how to think better.
What I find particularly funny about your point above, is that the adding of additional stops to the bus routes to make them more useful is also one of the bigger factors that slows the bus down. If I were to take the bus to work, the best route would go from a bus hub near my house, down one of the city's main arteries to the commercial area where my job is. But, that bus will be stopping at every other stoplight to pick up or drop off passengers. It will make detours through residential neighborhoods just off that major artery. It will make a loop through the outdoor mall at the crossing of one artery, and another.
All of these stops make that bus line more useful for anyone who has a destination along that road. But for every passenger on that bus, stopping at someone else's stop is effectively a delay. And so this bus route takes about an hour to go from the bus hub to where my job is. I can take my car down the same arterial road and be at my job in 30 minutes. Hard to beat that.
