say you do take a train somewhere five hours away by car, how do you get around once you're there? only a handful of destinations in the us are truly viable to be 100% car free. you're still going to need a rental car, and that adds time and cost to the trip. heck, this past summer when we went on a vacation to florida (i'm in upstate new york) we drove rather than fly because the added "inconvenience" of 9 additional hours of travel saved us thousands of dollars in plane tickets and a rental car once we were there. it also gave us the flexibility of being on our own time table and the convenience of not needing to deal with niggers on public transportation. planes are already so bad that an 18 hour door to door car ride is more favorable than a 9 hour door to door plane ride so any new public transportation would have to be better than planes to make it worth it. considering trains are worse than planes it's a non-starter.
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