Fifty years to the week after passenger rail service ended in Bethel because no one wanted to travel in all the style, punctuality and comfort of the 19th century....
You are so right! Government trains are always a losing proposition. Why would anyone ride this thing? First, they will probably put the train station in a place you would not want to go or leave your car. Oh yeah, you first have to get to the train station somehow. Then the security measures will be every bit as onerous as the ones at airports, so expect to have to get to the station at least an hour or two in advance.
Then after you reach your destination, assuming you were not mugged or peed on in the train, what then? You are probably in a part of town where you don’t want to be, and you wil have to rent a car, have family pick you up, or take a cab.
Even in Europe, where they are so proud of their trains, the systems are all a black hole for taxpayer money. Will people ever learn that government’s only legitimate function is public safety and the military?