In the Puget Sound region, it should include ferries. I ride them more than buses or trains.
I’ve lived most of my life in various areas of the American Southwest. While not absent, effective mass transit is scarce and the cities tend to be sprawling.
Still, it was my main option in High School (I wanted a computer a lot more than a car!), and thankfully I lived on campus during my college years.
Still, I’ve used mass transit and it’s big brother, intercity shuttles and busses a few times (often associated with airports), and quite a bit of dedicated mass transit in regards to UCCS (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) because parking on campus cost 1.7 limbs of choice. But… you could part your car in free parking at an associated lot 3 miles away and take the free shuttle to campus - which I’ve done for events or when helping my wife during her PhD when the limited (very!) 15 minute or metered parking on campus wouldn’t have worked or was flat out full.
I always take the bus to the Hollywood Bowl. Since they’re dedicated to just taking people to and from the Bowl, there’s no issue with them leaving early.
Since I’m a native Angeleno, I have taken very little public transit here. It’s gotten better, but it’s still not great. I spent a summer in San Francisco between high school and college, and I took public transit everywhere. Very easy. Plus I had a Galileo High School** bus pass because I looked young enough. Plus-two, bus drivers there rarely punched the cards in the boxes indicated, so it was really common to get between 11 and 14 or so punches on one ten-punch card.
** OJ’s high school
As a young boy, I rode one of the last Red Car lines. I know some people think that they should have left them in, but in reality- they were obsolete. My Mom didnt drive, so we occasionally rode one. You just waited until the cars turned a corner, ran a little and jumped on- they were that slow. I never saw anyone pay, either. They ran on surface streets and they were a hazard, and very slow.
That sucked when Cloverleaf Industries bought them.
Until i retired, i took public transit whenever i went to the office. I still use it sometimes, especially when I’m traveling, but not nearly as often as i used to.
When asked about the characterization of the (R)'s in poll, I voted yes, it’s accurate with an internal tiny note of (But actually…).
I’ve made the point in several threads that there is a difference between Republicans who were wrong about most things IMHO, but at least were semi-rational and MAGA which is disturbingly, violently wrong on almost anything including basic facts and reality.
Since the (R) are now all-but fully owned by MAGA, it’s a distinction without much merit though. So, still voted it’s fair, but there are a few remaining Republicans of character (which I still disagree with) however AFAIK none of them are positions of much active power (lots of news about ones that were characterized as RINOs and forced out, or retired (R) commenting on Trump quite pointedly).
On an entirely different note, I voted “Yes” for walking a mile (I’ve done it within the last 2 months), and “Probably” for 10, although I’d be leaning heavily into the ideal conditions, and no mention was made of time / breaks taken. 
10 miles? No sweat, even with a bum knee. We put up that kind of milage every time we’re in Vegas.
10 miles? I haven’t done that it a day since all the way back to…last weekend & I’ve been averaging 7½-8 over the past 10 days. I could do it easily.
I could walk a mile with no problems. I could probably 10 miles if you gave me 10 days (I voted “probably not”). This suggests to me that I should give that a try once the daytime temperatures aren’t in the 90s.
The way everyone calls Hillary Clinton by her first name grates on me a bit, but given the prominence of her husband, it makes sense that people didn’t go with just her last name. I have noticed that female politicians are referred to by their first names far more often than male ones, and I do think it’s disrespectful. I’d feel more strongly about that if Harris’ people hadn’t sent me a “Kamala” bumper sticker after I donated to her primary campaign in 2020.
I can’t do the long walks that I used to, and need to be able to pause occasionally if I need to catch my breath; but I’m reasonably certain that I could still do a mile in basically one stretch with only brief pauses, as long as I don’t have to do it fast. I do significant portions of that with a good bit of frequency, multiple times on most days.
Ten miles becomes dubious and I said probably not. I would certainly be very slow at it and need to stop multiple times to sit down.
I walk at least 1.5 miles every day or else my “fitness app” complains. I could walk 10 miles without problem, I just need to fit the time into my day.
The light rail is great if you want to go to downtown Sacramento, or someplace that happens to be along the line. Otherwise not so much, which is why I had to answer “rarely” in the poll. My commute takes 35-40 minutes by car; by public transit it would be over 2 hours, each way.
Taking light rail worked great when I had jury duty last year, though. No dealing with rush hour traffic and parking downtown, and it stops right by the courthouse. And the court will give you free tickets if you use public transit to get there.
I’ve only ever just gone through the regular customs line. I didn’t even know there was a separate line. I’ve only brought back toys for kids and candy for the office. They never want to check any of it.
I guess not every international border might have a separate line, though all the major ones probably have somewhere where you can declare goods if necessary.
When we brought Simi home with us from St Martin, it was a pretty big deal. We had to go through “regular” customs/immigration, then had to take him through special screening through the Department of Agriculture which was about a half mile walk down a long corridor.
When we got there the woman looked at Simi’s paperwork, which was all in French. I “translated” because the woman knew no French (neither do I) so I just told her “this shows that he was vaccinated for rabies, this says he has no communicable disease”. She believed me and sent us on our way.
My SO made the crossing into Mexico at Presidio a few times with my inlaws when they bought prescription medicine. He says there was no separate lane to declare things. They were always asked if they had anything to declare, and they always did ‘declare’ their scripts, but only once did the customs folks even look at them.
There are separate lanes for trucks carrying produce or other merchandise, but not for passenger vehicles even if they have a trunkload of stuff that might be declarable.
I went through the “goods to declare” line once, because I had an apple I brought with me to snack on the plane, but didn’t eat, and the sign said produce needed to be declared or something to that effect. I showed my apple to the customs agent and she just waved me through. Since then I always assume they don’t care about single pieces of fruit and that sort of thing, so I’ve just used the “nothing to declare” exit ever since.
There was a recent thing in the news about apples given out on a Delta flight.
Drove into Canada with 40 gallons of propane in the back (& all appropriate Transport Canada paperirk); they never asked for anything.
Got more hassle going back into Canada a couple of days later on my bike. I’m on a bicycle wearing spandex. When she asked me if I had any guns, any knives, any weapons, any drugs, I really wanted to point to one thigh & say I’ve got a shotgun here & point to the other thigh & state I had an Uzi there but I just knew Ms. Happy & Jovial wouldn’t get it.