In rush hour in plenty of cities, trains will almost always be quicker, because they can move more people per hour than the road network can. (If you look at so

In rush hour in plenty of cities, trains will almost always be quicker, because they can move more people per hour than the road network can. (If you look at some metro systems, you can get up to 60,000 passengers per hour on a single track; for a highway, 2,000 cars per lane per hour is considered good: if you're all in SOVs, you're talking 30 lanes in each direction to be comparable with a single train line.)