Yeah, the buses kind of scare the shit out of me. Even when I'm riding in one, I get really nervous about how close they get to bikers!!
It does make me glad for the bike paths that exist.

As for past!biking, it has been over a decade (I think??), and biking in suburbia is totally different than doing so here. There it was always to meet my friends in this park with a creek in it, never for errands. Tho I guess it's true that I used to for some of the same reasons now - just to get outside, to go somewhere faster than I can get by walking, etc.