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If there already is rail infrastructure, it is unlikely that you are improving anything by demolishing it and replacing it with a bus. Whether it would make sense to build all those railway lines nowadays is a different question, but demolishing them where they already existed was in no way an improvement. Buses never have any real advantage over taking one's own car on the same route. Trains can have an advantage because they are more comfortable and can bypass traffic jams.
The map would look quite similar in many other European countries too. The widespread adoption of cars killed the demand for many of those railway lines. :(
I'm not sure if you've really thought this one through. Railway maintenance is expensive, and operating stations and switches requires personnel as well. In low-traffic areas you could get away with one single bus line, meaning you only need to maintain that one bus and pay the driver's salary.
I like the idea that bus just magically floats to the destination as if roads are any cheaper to maintain than railway.
And I suppose you assume that cars will just float magically if you build a railroad?
Am french, can confirm they do that here