God Please!
no rail.
Noisy, limited and limiting
Buses. New ones are comfortable quiet and go where the people want to be.
This country is a country ready for a complex busing system run by private entities. Since anyone can purchase buses and put them on the road it is less prone to monopolies and poor service.
Buses are the future of mass transit.
I wish that weren't so. For all the neglect and inconvenience, an AMTRAK journey from Cleveland to DC is wonderful. Getting commuters and long-distance travelers off the roads and on to rail would really help keeping roads less congested. Today in the US, passenger rail doesn't even have its own tracks....it depends on commercial users for access.
Look at the NE corridor. My experience in the DC/Baltimore segment is that rail is very efficient, quite comfortable (compared to busses or planes), and has a lot of scheduled trains. It can be done. One can't help but suspect that pols like keeping lots of construction deep-pocket interests happy with projects to (sort of) maintain the roads.