I think people who say this truly don’t understand how vast and how challenging it truly would be to service all rural areas. I live and work in a mountainous area. My “town” has a population of 300 people at 7 thousand feet elevation in a very dense forest. I’m 30 minutes drive to the nearest store with several thousand feet of elevation change. Putting a rail line here would be absolutely ridiculous and we’d have to cut ancient trees down and get creative in the civil engineering to even make it possible. There are often earthquakes and landslides, just to make it more challenging. This would all be just to service a small number of people. This is just one tiny example of how it isn’t practical in all cases. I’m all for increased public transportation and highly support it. I’d ride the train when practical if there were one. But I’d still need my vehicle to get to job sites and haul what I need to regularly haul. I’m convinced many people here have genuinely never been out of the city and simply can’t comprehend it. It isn’t so black and white.