Stillwater and Hudson both have park and rides (basically a parking lot stop for a bus dedicated to suburban 9-5 commuters), but unless you're willing to put up with doubling or tripling your commute time to take a bus into the cities, you're still better off just driving in and paying for parking.
What would be roughly a 30-40 minute trip by car becomes an hour and 20 minutes by bus, if you don't need to change buses too many times to get to your destination- and that's by ideal conditions (bus isn't running late, etc) (that example used stillwater park&ride to the north loop).
What would be roughly a 30-40 minute trip by car becomes an hour and 20 minutes by bus, if you don't need to change buses too many times to get to your destination- and that's by ideal conditions (bus isn't running late, etc) (that example used stillwater park&ride to the north loop).