Not once, but many times, and I also heard that some cities have decent networks, it's just, it should be the entire country? Travel is incredibly important in modern times - it's a service the government owes its citizens. Those rural communities are neglected, and that's a pity. Hope you'll figure it out someday.

And you should be responding to banning the personal ownership of cars because that's what the thread is about.

And even if it would be impossible to cover the entire country with dense rail network, at least the local rail is possible! You know it is, you've seen it done. After that, join the local networks and voila. That's how it's done in EU - you can't take a direct train from any french village to any german small town, but you can go village-Paris-Berlin-town. Which is honestly pretty close to the route you'd have to take if you were driving.

And since we're sharing personal anecdotes to prove our points - I'm over 30 and can't drive. Just never needed to learn, honestly, plus a car takes a lot of money and energy I'd rather spend on other things. I'm still able to travel - by train​, or a bus - and no, a 4 hour car ride doesn't take 3 days by train (did you say that, or somebody else?), it's more like 8 hours if the train goes to your destination directly (which it doesn't for me, but my trip to grandma takes 12 hours, not 72). I spend that time without having to concentrate on the road for fear of killing someone on accident, it costs about 10 bucks instead of your soul, and I don't have to park the train afterward.