Originally posted by mike
Granted, they could be made more practical, but right now the USA trains cause a lot of traffic stoppage. We have trains in our city which tie up traffic for more than 15 minutes at a time. The traffic can sometimes get backed up for almost a mile on both sides of the track.
The key here is funding. It always amazes me to see so much government funding spent on subsidising
private transport (such as the motor car) and so little spent on
public transport (such as trains, buses etc). Maybe there's something I'm missing in these definitions
