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A train is so much easier if you don't want to drive. But billionaires don't want trains.
As much as I am a big fan, and user of public transportation, saying it's just because billionaires don't want trains is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. A car is simply much more convenient than public transportation. If I wanted to go to burger king from my house, right now, I could walk 5 minutes to the train station, jump on the train, take that for about 2 minutes to the next station, jump off and walk another 10 minutes to burger king. So like, 17-ish minutes. If I went there to get takeaway for both me and my wife her food would be cold before coming back, even if we live in a scenario where the trains match up perfectly as to avoid any waiting times at the station.
Lets call it a roundtrip of 35 minutes just to get a burger. Again, assuming that the trains, because they are so incredibly wellfunded in this scenario, that I can step on a train pretty much any time I need, instead of the hour it is at the moment.
If I were to take my car, the same distance would take me 5 minutes. So a roundtrip of 10 minutes.
When I take the train to work, I need to bring my bike along because trains don't stop in front of the factory. Time from set off to arrival is about 45 minutes. In my car I can get there in 15 minutes. That's 60 minutes of wasted time per day.
My point is, taking trains is not going to work for a whole lot of people, and brushing them and their needs off because of it isn't going to solve anything.