Car infrastructure has lower up-front costs, but much higher lifetime costs than rail. That's the real profit making scheme here. That, plus you have to buy a car to opt-in, which is a major expense and one that has to be made every 5-15 years.

They actively don't want that. That means someone else is getting credit for their political capital, and as we all know it's a zero sum game: if someone else is winning, you're losing