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Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by paganel » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 3:22 PM UTC

hoipaloi wrote: post #50

shusaku wrote: post #31

“How far can I go on just local trains” is a fun game to play here in Japan. I’m not sure my body could handle the bus version here, unless the roads of England are very straight and smooth!

I did this by accident from Tokyo to Kyoto. My idea was that I didn't want to take a bullet train to Kyoto and what I wanted was a slower train with a restaurant and a bar car. So without speaking Japanese I tried to buy that ticket, and the train office were slightly surprised then they did the ticket processing to make it happen. Turns out what I got was a local train all the way to kyoto. It fucking sucked. It was…

Just wanted to say that trains without restrooms are the work of the devil. Actually access to restrooms is one of the major things which makes me prefer trains over buses, that and being able to read on a train because on a bus I get car-sickness pretty quickly if I try do to that.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by niij » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

wincy wrote: post #86

Kreotiko wrote: post #67

The title is misleading, it should state that is within the U.K. You can get to south Italy from London in less than 24 hours. Edit: My fault, it is not misleading. I didn’t get the context of somebody using British English.

Despite them not intentionally misleading I was excited to read about someone’s trip to Italy on a bus or something. I rarely travel in the US because every place is kind of the same. Why travel 400 miles when I can get some McDonald’s right here?

Where have you been that you consider every place the same? The pit stops on the highway yes, but the difference between San Juan, NYC, Idaho, and Fairbanks is immense.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by TMWNN » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

megameter wrote: post #126

version_five wrote: post #47

There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know. I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes. Curious i…

The SF Bay Area allows this possiblity, though it would be most feasible by including local rail; a walk-on north-south trip between Santa Rosa and Monterey could be done by going SMART->ferry->BART->Caltrain->Hwy 17 Express->SC Metro bus. If you were very patient there are bus routes that would cover the SF-Peninsula leg. I would have to check to see if Sacramento is possible without resorting to rail or coach. Edit…

>I would have to check to see if Sacramento is possible without resorting to rail or coach.

The last time I looked into this, no. There is a gap, I think around Solano, that requires BART or Amtrak.

Re: Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

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Post by skykooler » Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 4:31 AM UTC

drstewart wrote: post #107

skykooler wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think that would break down around Philadelphia - New York, unless you consider the NJ transit coaches "local" buses.

I just looked out of curiosity, and it looks like it's doable (not sure about the time frame, just the route options). From Philadelphia city center: SEPTA 4 to Cecil B Moore Av SEPTA 3 to Frankford Transportation Center SEPTA 14 to Oxford Valley Mall SEPTA 127 to Trenton Transit Center NJT 409 to High St & Broad St NJT 413 to Camden NJT 317 to Asbury Park NJT 139 to NY Port Authority

I mean, if you're including the 317, you could already get on it in central Philadelphia (its other terminus). That's sort of my point though - those buses are big Greyhound-style intercity buses, not the hop on / hop off city buses from the british experiment.