A train system that works would help. So far this year I've had a week without a service (landslip), inability to get a train to Oxford for 2 months (collapsing viaduct), three weeks of reduced service (train engines couldn't cope with a new higher biodiesel content), travel to two of my four PBP qualifying rides disrupted by planned engineering works, and umpteen days of lost service due to strike action.
I used to travel about 20,000 miles by train a year, post-Covid with increased homeworking I expected it to be 12,000, but it is likely to be 8,000 this year and reducing because I can no longer plan for trains to get me to my destination in the UK.
My bus service is once every two hours, which for a contiguous suburb in a town of 125,000 people explains why everyone uses a car. If I want to get into the town centre, or catch a train, I walk.