Yeah the train system is shit in Canada in my opinion. The GO train is useless. It's super expensive and super slow, has very few stations and at certain times of day it only runs every hour. Not very effective at all. If we had a good rail system to bring commuters to the major cities quickly, efficiently and cost effectively then it would relieve a lot of traffic from the highway as well. Our highway system is essentially a failed system since there is gridlock at nearly all times of the day in several areas (days, weekends, morning, afternoon, night, doesn't matter).
So we basically have an ineffective train system and an ineffective vehicle system....
Trains were quite popular in Europe for sure.
Driving was also a dream in France. It killed me that I could drive to work each day through two towns, on one major highway and two minor highways in just 20 minutes and hit zero stop lights and only one stop sign. Here I literally hit 2 stop signs and two traffic lights coming out of my neighborhood...lol then I get stuck in traffic every morning in stop and go for 10 minutes getting onto the 401 because it has two probably 10-30 thousand cars (just guessing) in the morning all trying to merge from two on ramps onto two lanes...🙄 Then I hit approximately 12+ traffic lights once I get into the city... In France the drive would take 7 minutes, here it takes 30. And that's just because they have effective round-abouts there instead of lights and signs. You don't realize how broken a thing is until you experience the alternative. It's like: "what do you mean that you can drive across country without getting stuck in traffic and there are no stop signs or traffic lights?"
okay rant over