They don't need to sit that many. It's not an interstate route that runs thrice a day and carries 300 people in each run. For it to be an alternative to cars you need to have lots of route and they need to be quite frequent - which means less people in each minibus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The ones I used to take ran every ten minutes and we would pack thirty to forty people on for each trip during rush hour. They really needed to bump it to one bus every five minutes from about 6am to 8am if only for safety reasons, but even packing them to standing capacity like we did I never worried that I wouldn't be able to get on and get to work in the morning.