In America, yes. My truck driver stepfather stopped using his CB because it was incessant preaching or childish fighting 99% of the time. Only turned it on for info on traffic jams he got stuck in, and at customers who used them to tell trucks when they'd been assigned a dock door (back before they finally started calling them instead).

Religion is used to manipulate people and also turn them into sheeple. As America has proven, it's devastatingly effective.

Even without public transit, it's still very common here in the states. There's a handful of street preachers in my city that stand on step ladders at busy intersections with megaphones to preach to people stuck in traffic at rush hour

The transit thing? Yeah I’d get a guy on the DC Metro pretty regularly who would sing a song then say a verse on the morning commute. He’d basically do it in each car of the train.

I've dealt with it

No, no it is not. And anyone telling you it is either 1) is dramatizing the one or two experiences they have over their life 2) live around a person or specific church who are annoying or 3) just lying to you.

My anecdote is I used to see "street preachers" 2-3 times a year. Never talked to any of them. Now I see maybe one a year. But corona threw off the numbers.