Do you have a train station in front of your house and any target destination you can imagine wanting to go to? Because most people don't.
I live in the Netherlands and we have this. Because it is what people want and need. And because it's been invested in for decades. And because it has a way higher ROI than car infra.
That would be those incompetent Eurocrats....
Plenty of people take trains for local transportation every day.
Depends what you mean by "local".
For the :last mile", well duh.
But for journeys over 20km there is nothing like trains for efficiently moving vast numbers of people.
There is one 100 metres from my house. I cannot catch trains at it because some reason I do not understand the powers that be will spend zillions on roads and SFA on rail tracks.
I also know that the companies that run the rail system have not updated their logistics as if it is the twenty first century. I cannot pt a box on the railways, and pick it up in another city, faster than driving it be truck no matter how well I plan it.
I can track my goods on road transport close to real time.