Why Trains Suck in America
Let’s face it: trains kinda suck in America. They’re slow, expensive, and just don’t exist in many parts of the country. The simple reason for this is because the US is so sparsely populated. Aside from here, here, and here, cities just aren’t close enough together to make train travel faster or cheaper than plane travel. When cities are within 200-300 miles of each other, it’s often faster to take a train from downtown to downtown rather than driving to…