Yes, I like trains, too. Largely copied from my reply to a similar comment: Trains requires long-term planning and alignment of a lot more people and organisa

Yes, I like trains, too. Largely copied from my reply to a similar comment: Trains requires long-term planning and alignment of a lot more people and organisations, all of whom have their own messy incentives. They're a political quagmire that you might never emerge from. I'm trying to think of solutions that can be mostly built by the private sector and deployed with only modest legislative changes. For the same reasons, a friend who works in mass transit talked me around to favouring better "smart bus" infrastructure over lobbying for more rail — at least in most cases where actually getting more rail is an unrealistic outcome.