I feel you friend, I'm the same way. I've told so many people that and they are so carbrained that they refuse to understand anything beyond time to get there. Yes my bus takes about 10-20% longer, and they immediately augh at me for being a fool, such a fooly fool.

But my ride is mine. I read a book, I think about other things, my time is mine. It's not worried if the asshole will cut me off, the heightened blood pressure, the anger, the worried if I'm in an okay parking spot. None of that exists. I'll gladly take 45 minutes on the bus over 30 minutes of stressful driving.

That's nearly a line in Metric - Handshake

Buy this car to drive to work, drive to work to pay for this car.

No they got delayed, then cancelled

Pendolino is an Italian family of high-speed tilting trains (and non-tilting) used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (Czech railways are operating), the UK, the US, Switzerland, China, and Greece.

they can go up to 250km/h

according to wikipedia even the americans have a few! thought with their infrastructure i doubt they get used much

I read this entire post as if it was country music and I regret nothing.

I, unfortunately, have to commute 35 miles one way, usually on my Honda motorcycle. I wish we had any semblence of mass transit at all. But we do not.

Would I give it all up for the betterment of humanity as a whole, and hang my childhood on the memory rack forever? ...yeah.

Unsarcastically, the world needs more people like you.

Making superior options for long distance travel, commuting, and random short-distance trips doesn't mean cars go away, it means the 98% of people who aren't into cars get off the road for the rest of us.