"Rail only works over short distances" one of the most detached from reality carbrain statements I've ever read. Rail is objectively, demonstrably better to cover long distances than it is to cover short distances. Car culture legitimately gives you some kind of brain fungus.
It’s also so hilariously stupid to go “umm the country is too big for rail” when 99% of trips aren’t from New York to California, they’re within your city, or maybe to the next city over. When a majority of people live in cities, having short-distance fail there (and returning to dense, walkable/bikable urbanism) would so vastly improve everyone’s lives.
We’ve also ALREADY HAD rail all across the country, nearly all cities and towns were built along railroads. Our cities and transit were just all destroyed by the car industry and continue to be mutilated by sprawl because politicians have been in their pocket for nearly a century.
American cities were not built for cars, they were bulldozed for cars.
