[elgenie]

Being able to build infrastructure is a core state/social capacity that has to be improved; there's nothing special about trains. There's also no alternative, because roads, bridges, pipes, water filtration plants, transmission lines, fiber, power plants, refineries, etc. are all impacted by the exact same forces.

America did a spectacular job of redesigning society around maximizing car usage and continues to subsidize that pattern of land and resource use.