If only “every other” were true. LIRR, NYC: same problem. Metra, Chicago: same problem.
(Believe the statistics or not, comparing the antique, hardly used, minuscule network of the USA to the state of the art, enormous, and insanely heavily utilized Chinese railways is pretty hilarious hubris for Americans, and I’m speaking as one—who left the country, though)
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-ra...