[reaperducer]

Only free transportation I have come across in the Midwest is Free shuttle to nearby casinos.

When you get out into the really small towns there are often free, regularly scheduled shuttle busses and vans paid for by the state or county that ferry people to the nearest medium-sized town for groceries and pharmacies and such. Usually it's the elderly and poor that use them. Some of those routes are an hour or two each way.