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plan by going to hai.ting.com. Alright well it seems that we’ve ran out
of original ideas so we’re doing another one of these. So, what’s the longest bus route in the
world? Well, if you live in New York, you’re probably
confident that it’s the M14, which takes you the 3.3 miles between Abington Square
and the Lower East side at average speed of 4.3 miles per hour, which is the top speed
of a snail, if the snail was on a scooter that went 4.27 miles per hour. But it turns out that believe it or not, there
are bus routes even longer than that. So now let’s walk through, as is tradition,
our few caveats. First, this must be a regularly scheduled,
commercial bus route—it can’t just be a route some bus went on some time. If that counted, the longest bus route would
be when the Magic School bus went from Pluto to inside a kid’s intestines. Second, it must be a route done on one bus,
with no transfers. Third, and I can’t believe I have to say
this, it has to be a bus. A bus with wheels that drives the wheels on
the ground. I don’t want to hear any nonsense in the
comments about airbuses or how trains are just buses on rails, no. Nobody cares. Get a life. Just like… not so much of a life that you
stop watching the videos. Alright, so if you’ve ever watched this
channel before, or watched any YouTube video ever, you know that I’m not gonna tell you
the answer right away. Sorry folks, but this is how I win. Now, historically, the longest bus route in
the world went from Kolkata, India to London, England. Throughout the 1950s to 1970s, there were
actually a number of buses that took this approximately 10,000 mile, 16,000 kilometer
trip, which took roughly 46 days—and now I know what you’re thinking: didn’t the
bus have to get on a ferry, and under the rules of your “world’s longest drivable
distance” doesn’t that not count? Well, yes to the first and no to the second. It did have to get on a ferry, but in my opinion
that shouldn’t disqualify it: a bus route is a bus route, so long as you stay on the
bus. If it gets on a ferry, I say all the power
to it. But second of all, it’s a moot point because
all the routes died out in the 1970s, mostly because a bunch of people decided to do the
wars in Iran and Afghanistan, and despite what Ted Cruz’ new mullet would have you
believe, we don’t live in the 1970s. Now, I know that some of you have probably
heard that there’s a company called Adventures Overland that is launching a new UK to India
bus route. I can see the comments now, correcting me
and saying this one is actually the longest. But check the website folks: the bus doesn’t
launch until April 2022. Is it April 2022? No. No it isn’t. Or at least… it isn’t right now. If you’re watching this in the future, maybe
it is. If that’s you, how’s the future? Is Covid over? Did someone finally invent a home printer
that doesn’t make me punch… um, want to punch a baby? Let me know. Now, there are a number of different road
systems to consider when we want to look at what bus route might be the longest. There’s the American one, the other American
one, the Eurafrasian one, the Australian one, and the underground one the mole people use. Now you might think that the Eurafrasian road
system, being the longest, would offer us the longest bus route—but it seems that
the Europeans got too good at building high speed rail, and so buses aren’t particularly
popular in the region. Australia, however, doesn’t really do the
train thing, so it boasts an impressive 1,200 mile, 1,900 kilometer, 26 hour bus journey
from Darwin to Broome. That’s bested slightly by India’s longest,
which appears to be the 1,250 mile, 2,000 kilometer route between Bengalru and Jaitaran,
which is well documented in the bizarre canon of YouTubers who love to make videos about
them riding Indian bus routes. Over in America, though, neither Amtrak Joe
nor Secretary Mayor Pete has been able to bring effective high-speed rail yet, which
means Greyhound still reigns supreme: the longest route being a 2,800 mile, 4,500 kilometer
bus between New York, NY, and Los Angeles, California. This leaves the Port Authority Midtown Bus
Terminal at 4:00 pm daily, and after 65 hours and 29 stops, arrives on the West Coast with
the few survivors who managed to not get deep vein thrombosis. But finally, now that you’ve watched enough
that the algorithm will pay me, we arrive at the answer: the longest commercial bus
route currently in operation is the 3,900 mile, 6,200 kilometer TransOceania, which
takes passengers on a 102-hour journey between Lima, Peru and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With 44 regular seats, along with 12 sleeping
ones, it’s operated by two bus drivers who alternate sleeping and driving, with two daily
breaks to rest and refuel. The overland route was made possible by the
Transoceanic highway, completed in 2011, which connects Peru and Brazil—it’s called Transoceanic
because it connects the Pacific to the Atlantic, which I mean I guess is cool if you haven’t
heard of the Panama canal. Originally the route only went from Lima to
Sao Paolo, but it was extended to Rio in January of 2016 due to “customer’s wishes” for
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