Normal day for Amtrak then.

Thing is trains are fucking great when they work. American trains don't because the system and infrastructure is woefully shit and there's nobody competent to go in and fix them. Just a bunch of weirdo Americans train-sexuals that get a hard on for taking 72 hours to ride from New York to Los Angeles and who get angry when you point out anyone who actually has a job will just fly instead.

If they want to improve trains and increase ridership (something I am greatly in favor of) they need to dump these rediculous nation wide green new deal rail improvement plans and focus solely on developing robust urban train system that get people from where they live to where they work. And they need to police them to the point that the experience isn't more unpleasant than sitting in traffic.

If you had a safe, clean , and fast public transportation option available, people will use that instead of driving. Because you aren't forcing them to give up their cars, you are giving them a better option that lets them skip traffic and parking woes.

Course, they'll do some dumb shit like with the LA Subway, goes from downtown to Compton, as if anyone wants to go between there. Also until very very very recently didn't even go to the airport which is like the #1 fucking thing you'd want to use public transit for.

Instead the US is left with the joke of a public transportation system that is literally worse than most developing countries. Not because of any bullshit like Americans love of cars, but because the government is incompetent and corrupt. Just like a third world country.