Right, while in the uk with much higher density of towns and train stations, people also use them for local travel to get into town or one town over. The extrem

Right, while in the uk with much higher density of towns and train stations, people also use them for local travel to get into town or one town over. The extreme case is something like a million people use trains to commute into London every day, with another million or so on each of bus and Tube (subway).