[kewrkewm53]

At least here in Finland public transportation absolutely does not work in most of the countryside. Maybe you count us as Eastern Europe, but I can tell that the situation is no different in Sweden for example.

The truth is that replacing private car ownership for people living in countryside in many countries would require large government spending to operate lines that are not commercially viable.

[bookofsand]

In practice, 'bus lines that are not commercially viable' actually means empty behemoths running at times where nobody needs them, wasting way more fossil fuels compared to just letting people own their own comparatively tiny cars.