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> The other way around (living in city, working a bit out of the city), mass transit was more expensive than the car.

Do you mean the monthly cost of transit pass/fares was more than monthly cost of parking + gas + insurance + car payments + maintenance?

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Our monthly numbers are

Transit passes for a family of four: 250-450 USD

or one very cheap car used for commute: 300-600 USD + public transport

or bicycles + public tranport: 150-300 USD a cargo bike being the most expensive part of that.

I commute 2*50 min daily on bicycle since 2013.

To be fair it's actually 2*30 min nowdays, I just say 50 min because that's what how long the commute was with the car and also how long it took me to bike when I started.

Are those transit passes just covering commutes ? Or are they the closest thing public transport has to a car (global access to all routes) ?

Might want to include overt taxpayer subsidies in the former, plus any allowance for access to a car in those cases where mass transit doesn't cut it. It's kind of like including the capital/expense cost of the necessary standby fossil plants in the costs of "green energy" system.

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