>>1565602Connecting every county would be a huge waste of resources. You must be a european or a naive cityfag. Most of america doesn’t have the population density to make that reasonable. The only reasonable goals for the next 50 to 100 years are: (1) improve public transit within urban cores (2) connect the urban cores with HSR (3) encourage sidewalks and bike paths be build in small to medium size cities.
The fact of the matter is, most of america is not compatible with rail at this point in time. There is no point wasting trillions of dollars to run a train to a county if no one will use it. You can argue that it is better for the super long term to have the lines there but you could have spent that money on something that isn’t a huge money sink. Why should John Mcfarmerson take a train to a city if the city doesn’t even have light rail? So he can just pay for an uber when he already has a truck at home that he could have drove there instead?
