Amtrak milks the North East Corridor to subsidize its woefully expensive and useless service in most of the rest of the country.

There is absolutely no reason anyone should be driving to and from Boston/NYC other than Amtrak being a shit show.

Boston to NYC should be a little more than an hour on real high speed rail. Even assuming you can’t do real high speed rail it should not be more than about 2.5hrs.

And it should be running every hour at most.