I probably will be very wrong, but some places in Europe are urbanised over vast areas (in a sense making "endless suburbs") and to my knowledge have descent pu

I probably will be very wrong, but some places in Europe are urbanised over vast areas (in a sense making "endless suburbs") and to my knowledge have descent public transportation, usually a combination of trains, metros, busses, tramways. In places like London, to my limited knowledge public transport is the only valid choice for transportation, as car traffic is in constant jam, parking is impossible to find and costs a fortune. Countries like Belgium and Netherlands are highly urbanised and from my experience it's the same story - you do not take a car to go to work (if you work in the city/downtown). People even have jobs that they have in different cities and they take express trains everyday. I agree though that US's suburban and car-centric model, with endless cul-de-sacs is not designed to have public transport. To retrofit public transport into this - is a colossal task, though it's also an effort to change peoples minds, that not relying on a car is "an attack on freedom" and public transport is not only for poor people.