It is truly an incredible thing how uneducated on railway infrastructure the average American is. You could go up to any 40 year old man on the street and there's a good likelihood he doesn't even know what the Corridor ID program is, much less what routes got funding for study.
Go ahead, ask your mother what she thinks of the freight railroads and how they have formed multiple duopolies in the US effectively blocking the creation of effective passenger railroads in our nation and the way they lobby to further damage the viability of passenger railroads via lobbying and lawsuits, there is a high likelihood that she will tragically have no idea what you are talking about
My Aunt didn't even know the Cardinal existed, she thought Cincinnati Union Terminal didn't have any trains anymore and was just museums. And she lives in Cincy
I have multiple times had people who live in the US send me asks or reply to my posts that didn’t know that amtrak existed, was government owned or even stopped in their town. The information just isn’t out there for most Americans and that is a serious issue
