1. China's got us beat on total tonnage and on tonne-km; Canada, Latvia, Russia, Estonia, and Switzerland have all got us beat on mode share. 2. I think it might have more to do with the general absence of railways for people to ride even if they wanted tohttps://twitter.com/TheBigYogurt/status/1002596804821733377 …
2. It's a chicken and the egg problem. No railways => a walkable neighborhood does not develop around the train station. No walkable neighborhood around the train station => no railways will be built.