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> certainly not for all people, nor even for most people. Not even in Switzerland.

I mentioned Switzerland specifically for a reason, which is that it has an unusually high number of small fairly remote towns where cars are actually banned and nearly everyone reaches them by train on relatively low capacity lines, and even the tiniest rural villages are served by well synchronized bus services, directly contradicting your statement.

There really aren't any areas of the country where car ownership is absolutely essential, or even all that desirable. Sure lots of people have cars, but almost nobody has to.

Yes, of course as you point out it's a multifaceted problem that requires land use decisions instead of just blindly building train lines to nowhere. But you present our current car dependence as inevitability. It absolutely is not, it's a public policy choice we make.