You are so wrong. In Switzerland on medium distance trips, rail is actually more popular between cities. Rail has been and continues to be an absolutely fantast

You are so wrong. In Switzerland on medium distance trips, rail is actually more popular between cities. Rail has been and continues to be an absolutely fantastic investment. Rail is preferable to planes on most places you want to go in Europe. And the places where its not, its because the rail infrastructure hasn't been built out. This is because of 60 years of overinvestment in roads and 60 years of under investment in roads. Even Switzerland extreme successful increase in rail was born out of a necessity and a restricted budget. So much more could have been done. Once rail infrastructure is built, its operation is efficient and much of the infrastructure lasts for 100+ years. Its funny how people who like roads are all like 'train so expensive' and yet I see road dependent countries (like the US) with roads that look more like the Ukraine then anything else. If its so cheap why can't you maintain it? > drive because of costs Because drivers don't actually pay for the massive investment in roads over the last 60 years. Cars have been given incredibly valuable space for free in most cities. The list of things like that goes on and on. And driving also leads to an absutly insane amount of death and other health defects that society is paying for. Is it like 40000 deaths alone from cars in the US? Yeah fantastic that people safe some money over rail in some condition. If you actually analyses effect on society as a whole, walking, biking and rail are all utterly fantastic investments.