>>518791865 (OP)
Cars are the preferred/primary transportation in the US is because the country is large and spread out. My state has more rail than most states but that still lives ~75% of the state impossible to access without at the very least a bus line and more granularly a taxi or bike to go the next 10 miles to your destination. Nope, noo many places aand everything spread way out from each other. Even in my small state, you'd be surprised just how much stuff there is, followed by miles of nothing, until the next cluster of buildings and houses. So just how we laid out the country and the fact most towns don't "need" rail because it would be extremely difficult and expensive to buy all the land then run a rail line to a bedroom suburban township that has 200,000 citizens but only a fraction would use the rail line frequently with 0 in-bound daily traffic? Now multiply that by 10,000 and that how most people live here. So cars and roads make sense over public transport.