What's the Longest Bus Route in the World?
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My grandfather’s bus to middle school is actually the longest
Here before this comment blows up
Was that the bus that they had to get out and push uphill both ways?
@@scorpionblade4112 u copied him lol
@@scorpionblade4112 sorry mate I commented first 😕 look at the minutes
And it was driven through heavy snow in Florida.
My Grandad was a bus driver. He died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Old but gold.
SUPRISE! I am the funniest YTer evah!!!! Just kidding, it was no surprise. Everybody knew already. HAHAHHAHA!!!! That was an amazing joke (it was real talk though). WAWAWAWAWA!!!! Good afternoon, dear gra
Good one
@@AxxLAfriku shutup bot
hmmm
The longest single bus journey I've personally ever taken was on Intercape from Johannesburg, South Africa to Lusaka, Zambia.
Over 1,000 miles on the road. One bus.
Kinda 2,000 miles
Well bully for you
Why would you do that though
Indonesia actually have lots of crazy routes:
-Makassar (South Celebes) - Manado (North Celebes) , 1729 KM, operated by PO Megamas
-Pontianak (West Borneo, Indonesia) - Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Bandar Sri Begawan (Brunei Darussalam), 1255 km, operated by DAMRI (Indonesian state-owned bus operator)
-Jakarta (Jakarta Special Capital Region) - Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara), 1895 km, you will visit 5 islands during its trip including Bali, operated by Tiara Mas
-Medan (North Sumatera) - Jember (East Java), 2847 Km, operated by ALS
ALS trip lengths are so legendary there's saying "depart as passengers, arrive as a family" because it takes 1 week to finish.
Nice one my friend and I’m from the Philippines and I like to ride this because I love Indonesia so much 💕💕
Trivia:Bus Simulator Indonesia is a simulator game developed by Maleo which is you can enjoy your own game route in Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and Sulawesi
Answer: When Wendover Productions is sitting next to you talking about aviation and logistics
That guy's the worst
@@halfasinteresting are you sure?You are dismissed from wendover.
@@minisaiju7699 i feel like this channel is still only half as interesting
@@halfasinteresting yeah true that sam guy for Bendover is the worst btw we love you sam from HAI.
@@halfasinteresting Can you shout me out?
Fun fact: In Poland there is a bus route 666 that goes to a town called "Hel"
there is a train line too so it doesn't count
And the bus route 666 takes the highway, I guess. The highway to Hel.
Hmm
There WAS a bus route 666 to Hel. The last time I checked, they changed the number to something else.
There were a Finnair flight 666 from Stockholm/ Arlanda (ARN) to Helsinki (HEL)
As a New Yorker, that M14 joke gave me a good laugh. It's not only a snail on a scooter, but a snail on NyQuil on a scooter, bruh....
goes to show you the state of America's transportation
#Septa, just 60 miles / 100 KM southwest is a big joke!
@Cali Boy in my country, 20mins seems like forever considering how complicated our roads are.
Surprised no one has mentioned that 14th street is no longer open to regular cars and only is for drop offs and buses, so the average speed has to be higher
New Avery lore just dropped
There are a lot of areas in America that need better public transit but NYC is pretty damn good. Granted it’s mad expensive, but good
2:22 It is April 2022. And now a different country on that longest bus route is at war so it still doesn't exist
“Get a life. Just, like, not so much of a life that you stop watching my videos.”
That one hurt Sam, that one hurt.
"Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand!" 😳
Tough Love pushes you to be better.
@@AlecMader wait...is this a reference to the song Duran Duran? I don’t get it tho.
@@AlecMader I thought her name was Lola and she was a showgirl?
Half as Interesting is like if Sam got drunk and just started saying everything he's always wanted to say
idk if it's always been like this but Sam is going off and I'm here for it
@@xdendordx it started pretty tame, right now he's killing it
@@Automatic-Diaphragm killing what?
@@bruhz_089 It
@@perlsackhd3957 It
"This must be a regularly scheduled bus route"
Me: *cries in wanting to break the record by taking a bus from Pyongyang all the way to London if we ever do a summit there*
Just have it be scheduled once every 500 years
@@ENCHANTMEN_ British trains be like
@@Empy_C. huh the trains here come every 3-15 minutes .. maybe 30 minutes or an hour if a longgg train journey
@@greek9244 I was talking about ghost trains
Man, I see you everywhere.
Fun fact: I have said this comment at least thrice.
2:15 Considering what's happening in the future since Feb '22, I suspect that proposed UK-India bus route may not happen exactly as planned.
Looks like they’ve pivoted to having it be Istanbul to London, going through the Nordic countries.
@@samtherat6 London to Paris but the long way, going through both poles
"But Sam trains are buses on whe-" Oh
"Thank you Mr. Helpful"
@@BBCSportsRoblox No problem 👌
Actually buses are trains on wheels
@@adonaiyah2196 Um, aren't both trains AND buses on wheels???
Fans of All The Stations will be familiar with Pacers, basically buses on rails built and introduced in the U. K. in the 1980s for lower-demand routes, mostly disliked and being phased out. Many other countries have or have had something similar. I wouldn’t count them as buses although a generic term is railbus.
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The Logistics of the Longest Bus Route in the World
I'd watch the fk out of that
DW made a documentary about that route a while ago. They documented the first run from Rio to Lima with all the troubles they found on the way
"THIS ... is .. the longest bus route in the world..."
@@patricioandreslagosgarvia3226 it was in my suggestions after watching this one, youtube it's getting too smart
btw the greyhound "single bus" route didn't exist even at the time of this video, you could BOOK a ticket for "one" bus, but you would actually get multiple tickets for transfers after showing up to the station in person, and the longest single non-transfer ride during April of 2021 (and most of the 2021 season) was the part of the Seattle to Chicago route from MT to SD where you would transfer to another bus.
I took the NY to LA bus more than once, bring benadryl, advil, and don't miss any transfers if you ever do it lol
I watched someone challenge that route here on YT. My condolences. Just watching gave me dread. The guy and the other passengers were stranded multiple times without a bus or driver.
Living in South America, there are a few you have missed. Bogota to Buenos Aires, runs every Monday and Wednesday depending on the company you book with it is either 104 or 144 hours, though often gets longer with international border stops. one company does a route that is 7,034km the other company does a route that is 7,178 km, both routes pass though Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador. and End in Colombia, at Christmas the buses actually start outside Buenos Aires and continue from Colombia 1,000km more to the Caribbean coast, meaning for a month and a half a year the route actually increases to a little over 8,000km.
Bogotá a Córdoba 6,206km
Bogotá a Rosario 6,500km
Cali a Buenos Aires 6,803km
Cali a Rosario 6,198km
Cúcuta a Buenos Aires 7,757km - takes 7 to 8 days and they warn you of this when booking, all depends on the borders so they have a time they start the route and pick ups and drop offs in every country along the way but all the times after you leave the first country are approximate and the error of margin on the time it is due at a stop slowly increases. This route runs every Monday and Friday. Leaving from either end every Monday and Friday buses passing each other usually halfway though day three, the drivers then get two or three days off at the other end and then drive the route the other direction. So usually (precovid era) there will be two or three buses on any day somewhere on the route heading north and two or three buses on the route heading south.
How do you know this much about long, South American bus routes?
@@RuyVuusen haha lots of useless information when i first moved here i helped people on gap years with the planning of travel routes, and my son's god mother owns one of the bus companies
Huh
If you count only inside one country borders, the trip between Pelotas and Fortaleza in Brazil is 4.530 km (2815 miles) long and can take 6 days to complete the journey.
The northernmost tip of Brazil is closer to Mexico, USA, Canada and even AFRICA than it is to the Southernmost tip of Brazil.
@@gabrielfraser2109 there's a lot of facts like that. Did you know that the entire length of I-10 within Texas is longer than either the length west of El Paso, or the length east of Orange, TX (the last city I-10 supports before leaving Texas into Louisiana)?
@@gabrielfraser2109, one point in Russia is 1634 times closer to the USA than to Kremlin.
(Because the shortest distance between Russia and the USA is about 3.88 km
@@gabrielfraser2109 are you sure it's that close to Canada? That doesn't seem right...
@@tmanepic
I've just done some measurements on Google maps.
From a point on the border with Guyana to the southernmost point of Brazil is 4400 km. From that same point to the southernmost point of Nova Scotia is 4270 km.
I'm from the future watching this video, and yes, there's a printer that doesn't make you want to punch a baby.
which means covid isnt over
It punches the baby for you
But ink costs 300x what it costs to manufacture so screw it
Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic
he's lying
"Invent a printer that doesn't make me punch-... Want to punch a baby"
-Half As Interesting 2021
2:32 April 28,2022 aka future update :
1.Bus to London delayed to 2023
2.Covid is not over even tho restriction are lifting in many country
3. No you still want to punch a baby
back in 2019 some Flamengo fans took that bus to see the Libertadores finals (wich changed cities some two weeks before happening) and got stuck somewhere in the middle of the trip because of some random armed group. At least they made it on time and Flamengo won the game
I think I remember that
Cant believe minecraft rail systems are a thing irl
I know, right?
Well I CAN believe!
I've seen with my own eyes
I can’t wait till somebody doesn’t get the joke lol
@@shaun2566 That person is here!
@@shaun2566 I don't get it and it's your responsibility now to explain the joke
In Indonesia we have the ALS bus from Medan to Jember : 2800 KM, 80 hours travel, and very few toll roads. Because of the habits of their passengers who like to tell their life stories,after arriving often all the passengers immediately became brothers.
I love how he apologizes for not giving the answer directly.
Well...
I guess he can't find enough material to stretch further this video duration.
Today I learned youtube algorithm pays you after 4 minutes of a video
Does that mean youtube short doesn't make any money?
@@rifalya8114 probably yes
I thought it was 10 minutes
@@rachelcookie321 That's the time that you need to squeeze in an extra ad.
Nope. Withholding something until late into a video is actually about increasing retenting time wich is the percentage of the total video lenght that is watched.
The algorithm used to favor longer videos more (that was when streaming videos got really popular), than it favored every video longer than ten minutes (which led to people stretching out anything to hit the 10 min mark) and lately it does no longer favor any particular lenght, but simply promotes things based on the average retention time and engagement.
He’s branching out to other forms of mass transit!
But still somehow fit planes in
Deutsche Welle (German TV Station) did a documentary about the maiden voyage of this route. And it its even in english, worth a watch.
"From Rio to Lima - Transoceânica, the world's longest bus journey | DW Documentary"
Yeah and also in some languages like Spanish for Latin American viewers 😊😊
Since they banned cars from 14th Street in 2019, the M14 has an average speed of ~7MPH, which is pretty good since it includes stops.
You misspelled Bengaluru as bengalru, Now you will have to include this in your mistakes video
Wait isn’t it Bangalore?
@@binkssake7282 The name Bangalore was changed to Bengaluru in 2014
Misspelled and mispronounced 🙄
@@thegoblinslayer8491 wow I didn't know that. Thanks. Do you know why?
@@LeoStaley So it better reflects how the people who live there say it, rather than the colonial British name.
The magic school bus going into Arnold's intestines : apparently farther than pluto, or other nebulae.
Cue obvious Uranus joke, whichever one suits your taste.
He did say "from Pluto to someone's intestines", so I guess he combined both trips into one.
Though, as you say they also went to a distant Nebula which is *much* further away then humble Pluto.
This reminds me of the movie - Fantastic Voyage 1966
I can tell you that.... "The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round"
4:39 the people who opened the extension to Rio timed it really really well
Honourable mention would be the 2700km flixbus route from Barcelona to Bucharest. With 2700km it is still a significant route
For Flixbus, it would be the 3000 km on the route from Bordeaux to Bucharest. But I think that there might be longer ones on the Eurolines network. But the website is too bad to research.
The ozbus from London to Sydney was even longer. (Yes It was a normal bus)
When you see yourself on an HAI vid at 2:18:
*Pointing Leonardo DiCaprio intensifies*
honestly caught me off guard, so thank you
1:10 - 1:23 proves that Sam is the most honest TH-camr ever
Apparently the UK India bus has been delayed another 2 years to 2024
4:50 I swear your american phone plans are ridiculously expensive if that Ting thing is considered cheap.
Their internet plans are just as bad. But you know land of the free (to have to pay exterminate phone plan prices)
The US government has allowed outright monopolies or very limited completion in both regards. The telecommunications companies took hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars and did not build out the internet infrastructure to serve the whole of the US. This is what corrupt politicians gets you.
Glad it’s not just me, I’m in the UK with my mouth open at how expensive ting looks compared to what we pay here. Plus ting is shown to be cheap 😯
@@Bob_Smith19 they need a new Roosevelt.
airbuses? I think that wendover guy might be interested
Normie
when buses replace it...At 24.8 kilometres (15.4 mi) long, it is one of the longest surface routes operated by the TTC, the longest streetcar route operating in Canada and one of the longest streetcar routes operating in the world.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Now make a video about the longest CITY bus route
(a.k.a. those bus that have stops every half a kilometer or so)
The unwavering mechanical consistency of your dead pan jokes finally got to me and instead of just thinking LOL in my head I actually LOLed IRL. IKR
I haven't laughed this much in an HAI video in a while. Great writing, Sam!
The magic school bus going from Pluto to inside a kid’s intestines
Made me crack up so hard
DW Channel made a documentary about this route. You can find it on TH-cam in 3 parts if I'm not wrong
I was going to comment the same! I think it's 5 episodes long though, the main driver was cute :')
Rio to Lima and it was in 5 parts
There's a great DW documentary series on TH-cam about that bus route 🇵🇪🇧🇷
I actually watched the whole 3-hour or so footage. It is amazing.
Aww... i got remembered that cartoon magic school bus. I used watch it on my native language during childhood. Last month i was desperately searching for it, i couldn't remember the name. Thanks 😃
Being brazillian I cant help but feel "YES, WE WON"
DW Documentary from Germany did a really interesting 5 part documentary of the Peru - Brazil bus route that tells the stories of the people and communities along the route at the various stops. It's on their TH-cam page if you search for 'From Rio to Lima'.
Yes and one of the main cast of this documentary was a Peruvian driver of Ormeno named Daniel Mancilla who was very good driver filled with experience as a bus driver including his not make a jackpot in lottery when he read newspaper
There are a lot of Indonesian TH-camrs documenting very long bus journeys in several episodes. The longest bus trip there is the bus trip from Jember, East Java to Medan, North Sumatera, 4 days give or take operated by ALS. CMIIW
In Singapore the commuter bus service (Area?) 51 is among the longest (~38km 1-way, from a suburb on 1 side of the city to another on the other side) with the most no. of stops too (94 1-way IIRC; more than our other bus services of similar route lengths but which travel partially on expressways (30, 858)), with 1-way travel reportedly taking up to 3.5h 1-way during peak hours - which'd make it slower than the world's fastest marathoners
I'm surprised there's a longer bus route than Perth to Darwin in Australia. 2500 Miles (4024 Km), 3 days and 2 nights. I rode that one both ways one year.
It's gone now, but Greyhound's Toronto to Vancouver, 3 days - 72 hours on the dot.
3:01 "Australia, however, doesn't really do the train thing"
*weeps in Aussie foamer*
As an American, believe me, I feel your pain.
I did the Transoceanic in my motorcycle and it was amazing.
The M14 SBS is actually pretty fast, there’s a bus only lane
Now do the longest tram line. I think it's the number 5 in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim in Germany. 57 km, 74 stops, and some 2 hours 20 minutes of travel time. (It's a loop, so people don't usually ride the whole line.)
If they did they should visit a mental health specialist.
I did Prague to London on a bus, which was 32 hours due to a collision on the motorway somewhere in Germany, should've taken 22 hours. Felt a whole lot longer than 32 hours..
That must've been an interesting journey. My longest was a Flixbus from Amsterdam to Budapest 23 hours. The German police stopped us and asked everyone if we bring drugs through the country, then searched the whole bus with dogs.
@@vighdavid9495 It was Flixbus also. Toilet was not working either so that made it much more horrible. Used Flixbus a few times since though and I would still recommend them.
@@mattgallagher5663 They are really good for shorter distances where trains are not available, but for longer journeys I would still choose Wizz/Ryanair. They are pretty good in the US as well, I traveled from Boston to Washington D.C. for just 2$, flying would have been really expensive there.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few few details were a bit of, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Your intro just deflated my instant reaction: the Berlin M41 (which just as its almost identically named NY- counterpart makes you think it must certainly be the longest)
When Wendover posted a video explaining why the new Chinese high-speed rail network was so good, I commented (based on something Sam actually said in the video) "answer: because they're bad at planes."
This video can be summed up similarly:
"Why are Australia, South America and North America so good at buses?
Because they're bad at trains."
Brazil also has the second longest bus line, and this is entire in its own territory, crossing the country north - south, running around 4.530 km long, and taking around 80 hours to complete.
Where does it go?
Esqueceu de informar o trajeto da viagem (quais as cidades que a linha de ônibus cobre). Abraço.
I'm brazilian and in the moment I've read the title, I knew it would be here
I didn't
I wasn't expecting Brazil tbh
"You ever travel by bus before?"
"No."
"Well, your mood's not gonna improve much."
3:50 "arriving to the West Coast with a few survivors!" hahaha LOL:
I really enjoy the whole "now that I have your monetized view" bit you seem to do every video
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Back in the day, I took a Greyhound bus from Mill Valley California to Boston when returning to MIT. They lied to me about how long it would take. I spent an extra day. It was the most miserable trip I ever took.
I'm literally just watching the DW documentary last weekend and now you also made a video about transocenia. Pretty sure you're spying on my view history 😂
It's Bengaluru, namman.
Watching this in April 2022, it looks like the bus isn't going, COVID still is, and printers still cause baby-punching rage.
As a man from the future I can confidently tell you that a printer that doesn’t make you want to punch a baby has not yet been invented
Could've sworn there was a Greyhound route from Miami to Seattle that was somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 hours which would make it longer than the NYC to LA route...
There's is such a route, but it includes multiple transfers along the way.
@@nickmonks9563 yeah I guess the longer routes in south America include transfers as well
Bc I swear when I was in Santiago de Chile there were buses that would take you to Colombia or Ecuador and that's quite a long trip too 😅
When you read that Greyhound is cutting it's services west of Toronto back to Sudbury & then you realise that Sudbury isn't that far west of Toronto relatively
Weird coincidence as I just happened on a channel a month ago looking for videos on bus travel and there is a documentary on that very S. American route
"From Rio to Lima - Transoceânica, the world's longest bus journey (1/5) | DW Documentary"
Very well done, and enjoyable to listen to!
Also, HAI, look into what are some of the most luxurious bus services you can take. Amazing how some are comparable to small aircrafts inside!
Hey Sam, future guy here, we haven't invented a printer that makes you not want to think about punching babies, sorry.
102hrs!! I once caught a bus from Milan to Amsterdam which was 19hrs and i thought that was a long time 😅😆
0:32 Here comes the physicist with relativistic corrections
I took one of Europe's longest bus journeys in 2019, from Bucharest, Romania to Bordeaux, France at 51 Hours!
I went from Sarajevo to Stockholm, it took 38 hours
Deutsche Welle has an awesome documentary about the longest bus route that was revealed in the video. I encourage everyone to take four hours and watch the whole series
In Indonesia we have bus route from Banda Aceh Sumatra to Banyuwangi East Java by ALS at a distance of 3548 km or 2217 miles. It usually took 4 days to finish the journey.
“The overland route was made possible by...” well honestly I actually thought he was gonna run an ad
I love that the bus plan at 0:43 is about serbian and balkan destinations, randomly paused on the scene and I saw the name of the capital city of my country.
Автобус је Србија 😀
"Maybe to you in the future it'll be the longest" About that...
3:53 the unironic truth of that had me rolling 😆
Watching this in April 2022. A printer that stops your want to hurt children has not been invented yet. Hope you got help since posting this 👍
Enjoyed the video. A good idea for another would be the longest city bus route in the world.
This was not what I was thinking after hearing about the 46-day bus drive 1:40. It must have involved insane logistics. Did everyone stop at the same hotel to sleep? If not, how did they change drivers and how could the passangers survive 46 DAYS WITHOUT A SHOWER. Imagine the smell when they all arrived at destination.
You know what those passengers on the bus from Lima to Rio wish for? They wish they would have flown instead.
0:48 I am damn happy and suprised to see bus to my city from Hyderabad literally in some western video... This bus terminal is in Hyderabad India...
Get over this inferiority complex bro
@@jingaxdev5349 This is not inferiority complex.. its like finding tiger in Africa... i think you need to fix you appointment soon with counselling sessions soon to mend your thinking...
@@rb8607 It wouldn't be if u weren't "damn happy", India is on earth and nothing unusual about India featuring in video about Earth's longest bus routes
@@jingaxdev5349 get a fresh air... its worthless to argue who find negativity in simple comment... I just don't want spoil my good time in arguing with negativity of social media... ignorance is a bliss when comes to such situation....
Probably the Magic School Bus' route. It's gone to space.
Edit: it seems the comments and video itself already had my joke :(
170 likes but no replies what
@@queslife5641 What's there to reply to?
Surprisingly, you can book a continuous 64-68 hr transcontinental bus route from NY to LA one way for about $130 if you are flexible with the date. That's less than a day of wages to take a 2.8 day journey from coast to coast. (It does cost a bit more on the way back, though. About double.)
I highly highly recommend Deutsche Welle's 5 part documentary on the TransOceania bus route here on youtube if you don't have anything else to do. By the end of it I felt that all the passengers who got off at Lima were my lifelong friends and I was genuinely sad that the ride ended. They got into accidents, there are some info on the areas they've passed, they even followed some random people who made the trip from Brazil to see Machu Picchu in Peru!
Also by the end of the ride the bus is half full of garbage and the spicy smell of passengers who haven't taken a bath in days, also the bus is air conditioned.
After experiencing an 18 hours bus ride for a ski trip I'm horrified at the prospect of taking any of these.
I literally discovered this channel a few minutes before this uploaded
Welcome
@@marenawheatley5260 Yep, welcome to the mahem!
Where have you been all this time
i discovered you before you were born
I rode Greyhound from Youngstown to Columbus a few times in college to visit my girlfriend. Ended up buying my first car a year sooner than I intended because of that.
2:55
"It seems that the Europeans got too good at building high speed rail"
**Laughs in German**
You guys pay $45 for unlimited🥶 (after 22GB speed reduced to 2G).
Here in india unlimited (56 GB) costs around $4 ( 2GB/Day for 28 days, after 2GB daily limit speed reduced to 2G)
April 2022 update: COVID is not over, the future isn't that different other than were not in COMPLETE lockdown and we can socialize and not where masks due to vaccines.
Wendover: there´s no way somebody would go from Rio de Janeiro to Lima by bus
Flamengo´s fans going to Lima to see their team play: ão ão ão é Mengo de busão!!!!
In Indonesia, the ALS (Antar Lintas Sumatera) bus is operating probably one of the longest bus routes in Asia, from Medan (North Sumatra) to Jember (East Java), which about 3,100 km long and takes about 5-6 days. The bus would embark the ferry crossing Sunda Strait from Sumatra to Java v.v.
Seeing this video for the first time today it was uncanny to hear mention of april 2022, as that is in a couple of days. Big was my disappointment finding out the first trip from Iran to the UK has been postponed to august, however I was still pleasantly surprised as I partly expected the trip to have been cancelled altogether.