There's also the fact that American towns aren't dense and are poorly walkable. I'd love to be able to catch a train to the next town over, but once I get there

There's also the fact that American towns aren't dense and are poorly walkable. I'd love to be able to catch a train to the next town over, but once I get there I'd have to walk at least a mile or two to get where I want to go. Not that big a deal for me if the weather was nice and I wasn't in a hurry, but I couldn't rely on that for commuting and I couldn't do it at all if I had a disability. In cities big enough for a bus service it'd be all right, but you don't usually see that until you get 100k or so people.