I agree, the problem is that we can’t just take the roadways and make them railways. The system that builds the railway needs the money that those roadways support the generation of, which means the railway needs to be put somewhere else. Not a ton of places to do that easily.
Have you ever looked at how much the land costs where we would put the trains?
This is more of an unrestrained capitalism thing rather than a distinctly American thing.
Trains need much, much less land per passenger than motorways.
I agree, the problem is that we can’t just take the roadways and make them railways. The system that builds the railway needs the money that those roadways support the generation of, which means the railway needs to be put somewhere else. Not a ton of places to do that easily.