I spent the first half of my life in rural America in a town your size. I think I understand.
What I think you don't understand is just how far our infrastructure has crumbled since the introduction of cars. At the risk of mildly doxxing myself, the town that I grew up in is literally the exact same size as yours, and had a train station, that is now unoperated.
We can support transit. We choose not to, because we expect it to have constant occupancy (unlike the roads we maintain and the cars people drive with near zero occupancy most of the time).
What I think you don't understand is just how far our infrastructure has crumbled since the introduction of cars. At the risk of mildly doxxing myself, the town that I grew up in is literally the exact same size as yours, and had a train station, that is now unoperated.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm10Q2N_Train_Station_Ne...
https://relocationgenius.net/location/New-Woodstock/NY/
We can support transit. We choose not to, because we expect it to have constant occupancy (unlike the roads we maintain and the cars people drive with near zero occupancy most of the time).