In my country, almost any group travelling together is going to speak on a long-haul bus or train, many of them most of the time. And lots of people make loud phone calls (forbidden on most public transit but nobody enforces it: someone recorded 5 simultaneous calls from a tram once). There have to be designated quiet coupés (or open rail cars since coupés are falling out of fashion). They are experimenting with making them first-class only, very asinine given the ticket price difference and the near-zero cost 🤫🔇 stickers add to a railcar

It's pretty common for long haul routes to feature chatter, the chatter goes up exponentially if something goes south. As we'd then have a shared experience of sitting in queue on the highway together