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Because trains are massively inconvenient to anyone that isn't living in AND traveling to the most dense of urban areas.
Some of the comments in this thread are bizarre.
"I can bike everywhere I need to go. Everyone should just do that and then we don't need cars"
It's mostly a reaction to comments like yours that insinuate this isn't possible for most people, looking at population density where most people live paints a different picture though.
Only if "most people" only commute, with nothing more than a back pack.
There are so, so many examples but just this morning... I need to drop my pressure washer off at a friend's house, later I need to take my pregnant wife to a drs check up.
How can I do these things on a train or bike?
Most trips don't need a car and even if they do there's rentals. Importantly statistics can show you that ~60 of trips in the US are <6 miles obviously very doable by bike. Also 57% of people live in urban areas where public transit should be very viable. Also at least electric pressure washers certainly can be transported by train and or bike, and getting the wife to the doctor should really not be more than a walk, otherwise you might be the one finding yourself in the minority statistically, living so far from a doctor. So please don't rely on personal anecdotes to argue what is the case for most people. Coming into a community called fuck cars and arguing like this (in bad faith or just out of ignorance) is the more bizarre behavior imo. The bottom line is we need far fewer cars and less infrastructure for them than we currently have. When we have fewer than 1/50 cars/person your edge cases might be relevant but we have 1/2 or more which is crazy.