Perth / Western Australia

I definitely would've. Something similar happened back in 2019 on my local bus route, we usually had fairly modern low floor CDC buses, but one really hot day we just had a random high floor bus, similar to the one in your photo though with a digital headboard (like this). To date, it's one of the very few high floors I've seen operating on a suburban route in melbourne.

And yeah, before behaviours even begin to change, the service needs to exist. Although there will always be elitists who will refuse to take public transport, I do think many people would be willing to commute to and from work by PT if it was as convenient and similarly priced to driving. Cost does come 2nd as you said, but making it free to go anywhere you want doesn't help if you can't even get where you want to go!

The fare cap is really awesome, although I do wish they'd improved capacity a bit more first (it's simmered down a bit, but all the trains and buses used to be crushed to capacity!)