As someone who’s lived in Japan, immensely enjoys its train system, and wants to see an equivalent established in the US… Unfortunately, I don’t see a way for

As someone who’s lived in Japan, immensely enjoys its train system, and wants to see an equivalent established in the US… Unfortunately, I don’t see a way for it to happen in a timely manner. Even if everybody dropped everything and started working on public rail tomorrow, with all the red tape, obstruction from a variety of parties, and general glacial nature of construction here it’d be an uphill struggle to get even a quarter of the country’s populated regions thoroughly covered with rail in the next 50 years. If given the chance I’ll vote for implementation of public rail and am happy to fund it with my taxes, but I think electric cars are unavoidable in the interim. It’s better than continuing to burn fossil fuels that whole time.