Trains are winning, cars are losing

Economically speaking, business-wise, we're estimating that 10-20% of the business economy has shifted from cars to trains.  

With trains replacing planes for the Boswash metro region, home to 16% of the country's population and certainly more than that economically, we are estimating some 10-20% of the business economy in the U.S. has now shifted from cars to trains.

Here's the deal.  We only need to connect 100 U.S. cities by train to impact 75% of all economic activity in the country. 

So no one is trying to push trains on Wyoming or rural Missouri.  Those in Wyoming and rural Missouri and the other 20% of the country in rural areas can keep driving.

 

Comments

[D. P. Lubic]

I don't have specific links available right now, but judging from some stories from California on train travel there, this would also seem to be the case for the west coast, i.e., many of California’s rail travelers are businesspeople who use the time on the train to work. This also ties in as an adult version of being connected via the internet while in transit, something you can’t normally do in an automobile, and certainly don’t want to do if you are driving the automobile.