I wish. Unfortunately, even though that is the better option, it is more risky: everyone (meaning businesses in this case) already pay taxes to support roads, thus using them, even if it&#x27;s less efficient, is &quot;free&quot;. Plus, all businesses are connected to a road. Compared to building <i>and</i> maintaining infrastructure for a rail network, where you&#x27;re limited to customers you&#x27;ve built rail to. So I&#x27;d wager the &quot;last mile&quot; would likely continue to be truck based, even if rail use exploded.<p>To be fair though, the rail networks here in North America are seen as the most developed <i>freight</i> networks in the world (I wish we had more passenger service though; my daily commute to KU and back is a pain): 2863 Gt-km (NA), 2451 (China), 2351 (Russia), vs 391 (EU).