[lngarner]

The government shuts down roads all the time. Amtrack is a federally-owned company. It belongs to you and me. Corporations don't -- and they only want your money. That's capitalism. I'd rather be using something I already pay for and belongs to me. In Europe, trains are affordable. And in many cases, the prices are offset by taxpayer (i.e. the collective/democracy)'s funding. So the trains belong to the people.

[josephcsible]

Doesn't everything you said about trains in the US apply equally to roads, though?