Hot take: Americans don't love flying either. Airplanes are just the most cost-effective, reliable, and fastest method to get around for long-distance travel i

Hot take: Americans don't love flying either. Airplanes are just the most cost-effective, reliable, and fastest method to get around for long-distance travel in the US. Train service is often so bad that people would rather drive their cars and sit in traffic for long periods of time, because train travel is still worse. Make train travel cheaper, reliable, comfortable, and to places that people actually want to go, and people will take them. Of course some of these problems are much harder to fix than others.