Longest intercity bus journeys taken to date

As a companion to the earlier post on longest intercity railway journeys taken to date, here is a list of the longest intercity bus journeys taken by either charter/tour or commercial bus lines. The old Greyhound advertisement of “leave the driving to us” could not be more true in certain instances, especially overseas. The most scenic of the bus trips are shown in bold.

Peace!

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1. West Lafayette, Indiana to Daytona Beach, Florida and back (USA) = 2,176 miles

2. Indianapolis, Indiana to Whitecap Mountain, Wisconsin and back (USA) = 1,196 miles

4. Okemos,, Michigan to chicago, Illinois and back = 470 miles

4. Seward, Alaska to Anchorage, Alaska (USA) = 126 miles

5. Messina to Catania and back (Italy) = 110 miles

6. Oban to Inverness (Scotland) = 107 miles

7. Vancouver, BC to Victoria, BC (Canada) = 68 miles

8. Lafayette, Indiana to Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) = 63 miles

9. Michigan City, Indiana to Gary, Indiana and back (USA) = 58.4 miles

10. Dublin Airport to downtown Dublin and back (Ireland) = 18 miles

Busses in movies...
(Playtime, Tati, 1967)

left to right: Berliet, Berliet PHN8 Randonnée and 1964 Heuliez PAK 50.

#cars #carsinmovies #busses #jacquestati #cinema #sixties #playtime #film #vehicles #bus

Electromobility: Light e-trucks gain, a trend towards electric buses.

Figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (Acea) for the European commercial vehicle market 2025 show that battery-electric commercial vehicles recorded a slight upward trend in Europe, with buses showing significant growth.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260130-electromobility-light-e-trucks-gain-a-trend-towards-electric-buses?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#EV #Trucks #Busses #Acea #Transport #PublicTransport

Here in #Aalborg #Denmark the #busses from #nttrafik are flying the #flag of #Greenland #Erfalasorput in #solidarity with the #Greenlanders in the face of the threat of Trump's / MAGA's US

1960 Citroën Type HY at Royal Garden

#jacquestati #france #cinema #sixties #film #movies #tati #cars #busses #stills #citroën

Probably 2x Berliet PHN8 Randonnée (left and middle) + 1964 Heuliez PAK 50

#jacquestati #cinema #playtime #stills #cinema #busses #cars #movies

#SWBrumEVENTS - 80's Mania
INFO/TICKETS: https://bvoices.uk/4mXnd3F

📅 Sat 6th & Sun 7th Sept
🕚 10:30am - 4:30pm
📍 Transport Museum Wythall - #Wythall

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#B31VoicesSupportingLocal
#Busses
#Nostalgia
#history
#Metrobus
#LeylandLynx
#Olympian
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK

#SWBrumEVENTS - 80's Mania
INFO/TICKETS: https://bvoices.uk/4mXnd3F

📅 Sat 6th & Sun 7th Sept
🕚 10:30am - 4:30pm
📍 Transport Museum Wythall - #Wythall

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#B31VoicesSupportingLocal
#Busses
#Nostalgia
#history
#Metrobus
#LeylandLynx
#Olympian
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK

In Barcelona, certain buses run on biomethane produced from human waste.

For five years, researchers at Veolia − the company responsible for water distribution in Barcelona − have been working to recover sewage sludge in order to produce biomethane, a sustainable fuel that emits 80% less CO2 than natural gas.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250812-in-barcelona-certain-buses-run-on-biomethane-produced-from-human-waste?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Barcelona #Biomethane #PublicTransport #Busses #Carbon #Environment #Engineering #WasteToEnergy #CircularEconomy #Spain #Veolia

A little late, but happy #Ullortuneq to all of you people from #Greenland.

Your pretty #flag was flying on many #busses in #Aalborg.
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About that BusBoard Prototype Systems SB4 board -- they're expensive. They're more than $6 each (Canadian) plus shipping from DigiKey. They're $10 each plus shipping from Mouser.

That's a lot for a hobbyist when you're experimenting, especially if you're making mistakes.

I looked around again recently, and couldn't find anything I liked at a reasonable price point.

So what does one do in this situation? Well, if you go Overkill 9000, you design your own prototyping perfboard and have a bunch manufactured for you! When you design your own, you can give it any features you like. So this one has:

18 x 36 (648 holes total)

It's two 18 x 18 sections, though I didn't have them scored for snapping.

A total of 6 horizontal busses in groups of 2, at the top and bottom plus one in the middle.

3 sets of 2 vertical busses within that space between horizontal bus sets, similarly edge - center - edge.

Then each row has a 6-hole pad on each side of the center 2 busses, which are spaced for IC or other standard 0.4" component layout.

Made of proper FR4 fiberglass. Good copper, good soldermask.

Silkscreened row and column IDs on both the front and back, at both the start and end of each row/column (and they match up with the back...).

And silkscreened boxes on the front showing the pad/buss pattern - no more flipping!

They arrived today and ... they're beautiful.

2/x

#PCB #CustomPCB #silkscreen #overkill #Overkill9000 #buss #busses #pads #components #IC #DIP

When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a #soldered perforated board of some type as a #prototype, or even for very-low-volume production.

There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.

I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got #busses - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!

Some are #crap: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.

I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is #snappable into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.

But ...

1/x

#electronics #hobby #ProtoBoard #PerfBoard #MatrixBoard #Chinesium

711 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #Bikes vs #Busses

It's a trick !!
The carlobby trying to put cycling opposit public transport. So while 'we' quarral amongst eachother about the limited funds, nobody will notice the unlimited funds allocated to the car infrastructure. Which is much more expensive and benefits fewer people.
Guys... it's not a contest. Present the public with enough safe ALTERNATIVES and there will be less cars polluting the streets.

"Are Urbanists Too Obsessed With Bikes? (Why Not Focus on Transit?)" [8:53 min]
by Oh The Urbanity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOoTvmt6_c

Quote by OTU:
"Feb 22, 2025
One of the most common arguments against building dedicated bike infrastructure is that we should instead be focusing on improving public transit. This argument sometimes comes from people opportunistically using transit as a cudgel but there’s also a kind of old-school city dweller that fundamentally understands transit in a way that they don’t for this new-fangled bike stuff. It’s worth remembering: in many cities, separated bike lanes are a relatively new idea. Just over a decade ago, Toronto was “considering” building some."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

"Everybody...should be comfortable that the government also should pay for the basic infrastructure of this mass transit system that carries more people than the whole goddamn aviation system the United States every day," Janno said. #trains #busses nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/07/p...

Paradigm Shift: MTA Boss Says ...

TriMet should be in charge of Oregon's mass transit system. Until you reach the urban growth boundary in Portland, mass transit suffers significantly. 🧵1/3
#oregon #busses #ODOT #PDX #highspeedrail

We need high-speed rail from Vancouver, BC, to Medford, OR, along with rapid transit options that do include the MAX, buses, or trams. 🧵2/3

They also need to be included in ODOT's planning, incorporating new roads for trams, MAX, buses, bicycles, and pedestrians. 🧵3/3

#trains #busses #public_transport

Is the bus revolution coming?

In the rural areas, if we are to encourage expanded public transport use, then something is very overdue - whether new London-style franchises are the solution is difficult to say, but right now anything that likely improves the bus services in rural areas is worth doing.... whether English local authorities will do as well as Transport Scotland seem rot have done is another matter; but time will tell.

#busses #PublicTransport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qy500545o

The "Nationwide" stated here looks very England-centric with the places announced so far. #news #UK #Busses #PublicTransport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qy500545o