That’s not even a century ride!

95% of people don’t live or go to 85% of the country? The problem of mass transit has nothing to do with people driving cars around in the middle of nowhere.

A good rail system would’ve done wonders, but cars would still probably be really useful for more rural areas.

What you’re describing is a 200(ish) mile round trip commute… aka 3(ish) hours in the car. Your post makes it sound like this is just a normal, everyday thing that a majority of Americans do, but its not…

as a daily commute, this is squarely classified as a “super commute”… about 2% of American commuters hate their life enough that they willingly subject themselves to such a grueling commute. Well outside the norm…

Seems more like the kind of distance you should be covering on a train. With high speed rail, that distance is easily under an hour.

It’s also not really the kind of distance you should be having to commute for that matter.