Highway funds (tolls, tariffs, and gas taxes) cover about 70% of the cost of roads. Show me ANY train passenger system in America that has come close to that in the last two decades and then we’ll talk. Your earlier post that rails is cheaper than highways is a flat out fantasy.
They never want to talk about the fact that the vast majority prefer driving and even more live well away from a railroad.
I’ve been on a train exactly once in my life better than 30 years ago. It required a 20 mile drive to drop us off at the train station and someone to drive to pick us up at the other end. Then we had to do the same in reverse to go home. That sure shoots the hell out of the efficiency. Trains are fine for long distance frieght and not much else.
When I go to Michigan’s upper peninsula I can go and drive where I wish when I wish. I can stop and stretch my legs, have a picnic on a remote beach or wander off into the woods. Being forced on to a train will put enormous swaths of the American wilderness off limits. Which is just one more goal of the greentards.