Nonsense. There were plenty of central planners in America back then, but luckily for us the Soviets had more. Trains and trolleys are not good investments. They’re not dynamic or flexible enough. The best is a bus system for public transportation.
Get the government out of public transit and you’d see clean, low cost bus service, so effective that for many people owning a car wouldn’t be worth it.
That’s not private sector. Bus companies do not own their own roads and never have. Railroads do own their own infrastructure and pay for it completely out of pocket. Even trolley companies owned the tracks on the streets and maintained them out of pocket. That is, before federal, state and even municipal governments stuck their noses in. It was people like Fiorello LaGuardia—hardly a conservative (a RINO in fact)—that was one of the people who led the way towards switching city street mass transit from streetcar to bus, at great cost to the taxpayer in fact (along with his other public spending that he did with “feddy-bucks”).
Nobody is insisting on having to be forced into one or the other mode, though. Except liberals. Nobody wants to ban automobiles or buses, but the effective federal ban on passenger rail transportation has to go too.
Obviously you did not read my posts, period.