I actually rode the bus today
. It wasn't as bad as I imagined.
At first I was appalled at the $2.25 required to get on, but really, I traveled 16 kilometres total. The total running cost of my Geo has been around 16.5 cents/km (probably more for city driving) so it technically would've cost me $2.64 to use the Geo for the same trip anyway.
I, of course, got lost between transfers. It took me about an hour to get to my destination.