US is very big. Lots of places to go. Need a car to get around, can't fly everywhere. Trains don't go everywhere, because it doesn't make economic sense. Hm. Stuck with cars.
US has tons of very dense areas with lots of places that can be easily reached by modern public transit, should political priorities ever change. Trains don't go everywhere because of a conscious, deliberate and top-down (centrally planned) choice to invest in car infrastructure. Trains of course used to go everywhere in North America, and were economically viable just fine, until cars were artificially made more economically viable. Stuck with cars due to conscious choices of past generations, unsuccessfully looking for external excuses ever since.
Trains don't go everywhere because of a conscious, deliberate and top-down (centrally planned) choice to invest in car infrastructure.
Once again, this is false.
Trains don't go everywhere because America is large. Geographically, the "center" of America is larger than the entirety of continental Europe. You can fit the rich part of Europe in the American desert and still have room to spare. A U.S. train network as dense as what Europe has would cost hundreds of billions.
Trains of course used to go everywhere in North America, and were economically viable just fine, until cars were artificially made more economically viable.
This was never true. Trains have always been primarily about cargo in the U.S.
Cars were pushed because for several decades, cars were the cheapest and best option for a country as geographically large as the U.S.
