[HN Gopher] Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24...
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Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?
Author : footest
Score : 200 points
Date : 2021-08-22 01:46 UTC (21 hours ago)
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| cinntaile wrote:
| I was expecting an isochrone map, but this made for a better
| story.
| jccalhoun wrote:
| Really interesting. As someone from the USA, I didn't realize
| that this was only local buses not cross-country and was
| surprised he only got 339km in 24 hours. Reading the comments
| here it now makes sense. I don't know if you could replicate the
| journey in the USA with those rules
| shusaku wrote:
| "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!
| lucb1e wrote:
| > I'm not sure my body could handle the bus version here
|
| Why is that, hairpins up mountains or abrupt driving or so?
|
| I hate buses for long distance (1h+) as well for what it's
| worth, would much rather catch a train even though the
| Netherlands has some very straight and smooth asphalt, but
| technically my body could handle it!
| adav wrote:
| Maybe English motorways, but not many buses on there!
| ivan_gammel wrote:
| It was pretty easy to travel from Moscow to St.Petersburg only
| using local trains (,,elektrichka"), but I also heard stories
| about traveling entire Transsiberian route this way in 1990s.
| As of 2017 this seemed already impossible, but still quite
| close with only few gaps, as can be seen in this story where it
| took author only 24 days and just 400EUR:
| https://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/topic2130672.html
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| > unless the roads of England are very straight and smooth
|
| Hahahahaha nope.
|
| (English country lanes are great for cycling. They are not
| ideal for buses. I write as someone who has spent too much time
| on the very winding S3 Charlbury-Woodstock service in
| Oxfordshire.)
| dboreham wrote:
| Except Raman roads.
| hoipaloi wrote:
| 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 like
| riding a subway train for 11 hours. There was no restroom ,it
| was cold, the seats were uncomfortable and there was no food.
| When I think back on it, I don't know why I just did't quit.
| For food at a station I ran to get a bento within five minutes.
| At another station I raced to use the toilet. My eventual
| destination was Suntory distillery in Yamazaki and I got to
| drink 25 year old whisky so eventually it got better, but if
| you made it this far, yeah I had a good idea, that turned out
| to be stupid and I stuck with it because I don't know why.
| lostlogin wrote:
| This is hilarious - a write up with photos would beat the
| London Bus journey. Well done and commiserations.
|
| Travel in foreign lands seems to regularly break down at
| ticket offices.
| q-rews wrote:
| One of my most exciting bus journey was on a very straight and
| smooth road which the driver did probably above 80/100 Km/h
| regardless of the speed bumps we encountered along the way. My
| ass got some air that day (in the skateboard sense).
|
| - Bangladesh
| asutekku wrote:
| From my experience with the Shishun 18 Ticket one could easily
| get from Fukuoka to Tokyo and even further in around 12 hours
| or so. It's awful after couple of hours when you hit those
| smaller trains with benches that have not been replaced in
| decades but definitely doable haha
| version_five wrote:
| 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 in the US, would there be any regions where you could get
| anywhere by this method?
| smelendez wrote:
| Someone did this about ten years ago, going from LA to San
| Francisco in about three days
| https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfweekly.com/news/in-transi...
| [deleted]
| drstewart wrote:
| My hunch is that the best odds to get about as far in the US by
| bus would be the NE corridor, specifically from Washington to
| NY (which is about 225 miles / 362 km). Most of these cities
| have transit authorities that cover their metro region, and
| they'll probably all have bus service into the adjacent one.
| skykooler wrote:
| Think that would break down around Philadelphia - New York,
| unless you consider the NJ transit coaches "local" buses.
| drstewart wrote:
| 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
| calvinmorrison wrote:
| In the dc-boston metro you can get a bus to all major cities
| and most smaller regional ones without much trouble.
|
| But with a car you can drive from Baltimore to Montreal in like
| 10hrs so...
| megablast wrote:
| Talking about free, catching the bus in Canada involved
| scanners and bag searches. Only place in the world I've seen
| that.
| version_five wrote:
| Where is that? Certainly not on city busses, and not on any
| of the coach busses I have seen.
| steve-benjamins wrote:
| Is this your experience or something you read about? I take
| the bus all the time in Toronto and have never had a bag
| searched.
| rfrey wrote:
| Canada had a decapitation on a inter-city bus a few years
| ago, people were pretty freaked out.
| sunstone wrote:
| What's a little decapitation between friends?
| onion2k wrote:
| It's one way to get ahead.
| leni536 wrote:
| Getting ahead of navigation
| inamiyar wrote:
| If you could anywhere it'd be the east side (think starting in
| NY), itd be a lot easier if coaches and trains were allowed
| though.
| stephenhuey wrote:
| Depending on the timing of the bus schedules, you could just
| about make it from Maine to Florida in a day--actually over 30
| hours but definitely to the Carolinas from Maine within 24
| hours.
| Marazan wrote:
| This was done with local buses, not intercity buses.
|
| You could get much, much further using coach routes.
| dan-robertson wrote:
| Not really. They are buses with multiple stops rather than
| direct city-to-city coach connections but the X buses (eg
| X6, X7 from the route in the OP) are intercity routes.
| Symbiote wrote:
| The long distance coach to e.g. Leicester starts at the
| same place, but takes the motorway and doesn't stop until
| it gets to Leicester. Maybe it will then continue to
| another city, e.g. Manchester. (I've done this trip.)
|
| The OP took intercity / intertown "local" buses, but they
| stop at many larger villages and towns along the route.
| This is _much_ slower, as it usually involves leaving the
| large road and winding through narrow roads to the
| centre.
|
| Example map for the Leicester-Loughborough-Derby bus,
| showing a fair number of stops, where a coach service
| might make 1 stop between Leicester and Derby:
| https://www.trentbarton.co.uk/services/skylinkderby/maps-
| and...
| Marazan wrote:
| The distinction is buses that a Bus Pass would or would
| not be valid on.
| kurthr wrote:
| Having recently learned a new skill, here's a link to the full
| thread on nitter (for those not logged into Twitter):
| https://nitter.net/i/status/1428438081871433731
| yann2 wrote:
| Depends on the company. The US has no dearth of characters. And
| most of them seem to travel by bus. One time I ended up next to
| a dude who would excitedly point out every prision along the
| highway he had been a guest at. Another time a "paranormal
| investigator" with a 2 inch thick binder of haunted houses and
| she wanted me to go through every page.
| poulsbohemian wrote:
| When people at the state prison, which is in my town of
| residence, are released they are given a set of clothes and a
| bus ticket back to the major city. Some of them are nice to
| talk to - polite, and very happy to be outside again. I can
| only think of once while riding the bus that there was a guy
| I was concerned about. The "normal" clientele tend to be far
| worse behaved than the folks just getting out of the system
| mmphosis wrote:
| I've taken the Go bus from Toronto to Barrie, I think the
| transfer stop was in Bradford.
|
| From the Barrie bus stop you need to get on Ontario Northland
| to go further, but that is a regional bus and is significantly
| costlier. I paid over $90 each for the regional bus to Toronto
| - compared to some of the pre-pandemic flight deals: Abbostford
| BC to Hamilton ON for $17! Greyhound is no longer in Canada -
| you used to be able to cross the country using Greyhound. The
| Bolt Bus and others can be good options, I've gone overnight
| from Toronto to New York. I've also taken these buses in
| Europe, and yes you do transfer in Lille.
|
| Our hack was to take the CasinoRama bus from Toronto to Rama
| for $5, or on the first trip it was free and they gave us play
| money to spend at the casino.
| poulsbohemian wrote:
| Say that's interesting as there (pre-pandemic) was a Bolt bus
| from Seattle to Vancouver- so I'm hearing you could
| theoretically get from Seattle to NYC via Canada... seems
| logical now that I type it, but guess I'd never really
| thought about it. Would be more that 24 hours I assume, but
| maybe not
| mmphosis wrote:
| Except for that supercheap Abbotsford to Hamilton flight,
| it was almost always cheaper to take the bolt (or amtrak)
| bus from Vancouver to Seattle (or Bellingham), and fly
| quickly and cheaply to Newark, or other airport hubs in the
| US.
| noahtallen wrote:
| I think you're right, the current record for fastest coast-
| to-coast drive (NYC->LA) is around 27 hours. [1] And that's
| going well above the speed limit the whole time without
| stopping!
|
| 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cannonball-coast-
| coast-...
| sandworm101 wrote:
| If i was trying to _sneek_ put of london i 'd be more
| interested in how far i could go in 24h without being spotted
| on a camera. Canada would probably win that race.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Could you go 10 feet? I think the best thing to do to sneak
| out would be to put on a few of the correct type of items to
| make facial recognition difficult, and have enough options
| you could pop into a shop and discreetly change outer layers
| while exiting different doors (where possible) to slow the
| tracking down.
| Symbiote wrote:
| Since they all have cameras, you couldn't go on a local bus
| or train without wearing sufficient clothes to obscure your
| face. For example, a hoodie + cap.
|
| Cycling while avoiding roads with lots of shops is probably
| the best bet. In practise, private cameras aren't an issue
| except in very unusual cases. (E.g. with runaway children
| there might be a request for shop owners in a specific area
| to check their recordings.)
| dkdbejwi383 wrote:
| Easier reading (and avoids the new auth-wall on Twitter)
| https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428438081871433731.html
| pimlottc wrote:
| Thanks for this, I managed to follow the original thread to
| Leicester and then somehow got lost in the Twitter UI.
| thriftwy wrote:
| In Russia it was at some point possible to go from St. Petersburg
| (Atlantic coast) to Vladivostok (Pacific coast) using only
| regional trains ('electrichkas'). With some skill, paying for the
| ride could be avoided entirely, but it would take ~28 days.
|
| Whereas a proper sleeper train does that in "just" 7 days.
| umanwizard wrote:
| That's impressive. AFAIK in the US, the only two major cities
| you can get between on regional trains (i.e., without using the
| national train operator Amtrak) is New York and Philadelphia
| (New Jersey Transit from NY to Trenton, then SEPTA from Trenton
| to Philly).
|
| NYC and Philly are so close that they could _almost_ be
| considered the same metropolitan area, so it's not very
| impressive!
|
| Edit: also Baltimore and Washington, but those are even closer.
| [deleted]
| jefftk wrote:
| You're somewhat close to being able to do it between Boston
| and New York (and then all the way to Philly); there's just
| the gap between Wickford Junction and New London.
|
| (MBTA's Providence line, gap, CTRail's Shore Line East,
| Metro-North's New Haven Line)
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| > NYC and Philly are so close that they could almost be
| considered the same metropolitan area, so it's not very
| impressive!
|
| Indeed, supporting this: there are some people who live in
| Philly and commute to New York. (Using Amtrak, not the local
| trains.)
| JackFr wrote:
| SEPTA will take you as far south as Wilmington DE, and then
| Maryland's MARC train goes as far north as Port Deposit, but
| that's the gap that breaks up NY to DC.
| jrockway wrote:
| LA to San Diego is another one. Metrolink -> Coaster at
| Oceanside.
| umanwizard wrote:
| Neat! I wouldn't have expected this to be possible anywhere
| in the Southwest. There's no connection -- not even Amtrak,
| between Phoenix (where I'm from) and Tucson. I didn't even
| know San Diego _had_ regional trains.
| ptspts wrote:
| Why not use the LORR to extend the distance?
| theobeers wrote:
| You could extend the distance, but it wouldn't get you to
| another major city.
|
| I guess if you were touring Ivy League schools, you could
| see Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Penn with only commuter
| rail networks (if you allowed yourself small local
| connections).
| mintplant wrote:
| Caltrain from San Jose to San Francisco? Or does that not
| count?
| bob229 wrote:
| Londump truly is the worst capital city in Europe
| laumars wrote:
| As discussed elsewhere in this submission, if you want real
| mileage by road then it's by coach you have to go.
|
| I used to be scared of flying (technically still am but I've
| since learned to manage that fear) so over the years I've
| travelled great distances by road and rail. I've used coaches a
| lot to travel the U.K. and Europe. 12 hours has taken me from
| London to Amsterdam. I'd wager another 12 hours would get you as
| far as Eastern European, possibly even Russia.
|
| But such a journey would have to be pre-booked coaches. You
| couldn't get there on buses.
| Symbiote wrote:
| London to Berlin is 26 hours with Eurolines.
|
| It says there is a change, but not where the change is.
| laumars wrote:
| The Megabus will take you from London Victoria to Prague in
| 19hrs
|
| https://bustickets.distribusion.com/connections/results?depa.
| ..
| bogomipz wrote:
| Interesting that the Prague journey is 7 hours less than
| Berlin which is closer. Is this just because the number of
| stops is greater on the Berlin route or something else?
| laumars wrote:
| Possibly, though the location of the stops might matter
| more (ie the Berlin route might be a greater mileage but
| less direct). The change over likely doesn't help either.
| Symbiote wrote:
| It could be that Berlin is the "end" of a trip around
| Germany, but Prague is the beginning of a trip to
| Czechia/Slovakia/Hungary/wherever-it-ends-up.
|
| I had a friend who took the bus from London to Poland
| after each term at university. It was about 20 hours to
| the first stop in Poland, then another 12 or so going
| around Poland until it got to his city. (This was decades
| ago.)
| dukeyukey wrote:
| I've taken that bus. I think the change is in Lille, in
| France near the border with Belgium.
| IAmEveryone wrote:
| In Europe, trains are far more comfortable, usually faster, and
| with better networks in most places. They are more expensive,
| but if you are in your early 20s (up to 25 or 27) the Interrail
| ticket is an all-summer (or several weeks, as you chose) pass
| to travel as much as you want, over most of Europe.
| laumars wrote:
| I've taken many trains in Europe. Ferries too.
|
| Train is actually my preferred way to travel (that or
| driving. But it depends where I'm going and why).
| megablast wrote:
| And more expensive than flying. Trains are insanely
| expensive, especially in the Uk and France.
| drstewart wrote:
| "Better" network is an interesting choice of words if you're
| listing it as a separate quality from speed. Better in what
| way? I doubt anywhere in Europe has a train network with
| denser routing or more stops than the bus system.
|
| There are many, many cities and villages that are only
| accessible by regional buses. I doubt the residents would
| consider the train networks to be "better".
| IAmEveryone wrote:
| I was talking about coaches now :)
|
| ...and my perspective may be both local and outdated.
| Intercity coaches were actually illegal here in Germany
| until 5 years ago or so, intended to protect the train
| services (and, I guess, roads and the environment).
| JackFr wrote:
| > In Europe, trains are far more comfortable, usually faster,
| and with better networks in most places.
|
| Hah! That's what I thought until I wanted to go to
| Liechtenstein. You would think Vaduz as capital would have a
| rail station, but I had to take a bus.
| gpvos wrote:
| Well, the station is called Schaan-Vaduz. At least the
| country has a railway; neither Andorra nor San Marino do.
| suction wrote:
| Nobody wants to go there, may be why.
| Symbiote wrote:
| With a population of only about 5,000, and with mountains
| around, it's not especially surprising.
|
| The neighbouring settlement, Schaan, is larger, has all the
| industry, and has the railway and two stations.
| louthy wrote:
| I felt 'seen' as I went through the tweets...
|
| - Starts is London, where I lived for 18 years.
|
| - Goes through Kibworth Beauchamp which is about a mile from
| where I live now (Beauchamp is pronounced like 'Beecham' btw)
|
| - Then to Derby, where I was born and grew up
|
| - Then through Belper, where my first job was
|
| Felt slightly surreal!
| Epenthesis wrote:
| Is Derby pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with "car"
| or "her" (/da:bi/ or /de:bi/)?
| Symbiote wrote:
| Also being familiar with the East Midlands, I would have
| expected the pronunciation enquiry to be for Loughborough
| (/l^fb@r@/).
| danschuller wrote:
| The "car" one
| carlsborg wrote:
| Technically you could probably get to Vienna, Austria in less
| than 24 hours by bus, and still have time to visit a Wiener
| Wurstelstand and the opera, if your timing and access to a shower
| is good. London -> Paris: 2hrs 25 min, Paris-> Vienna: 17 hr 53
| min.
| zimpenfish wrote:
| > London -> Paris: 2hrs 25 min
|
| I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part of
| that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or coach.)
| chrisseaton wrote:
| > I'd say that was technically cheating since at least part
| of that journey isn't going to strictly be on a bus (or
| coach.)
|
| You know coaches can go straight through the Channel Tunnel?
| They board a special train.
| willyt wrote:
| It takes about 2hrs to drive to the tunnel from London. The
| high speed train does London to Paris in 2hr25. I'm
| guessing it takes about 7hrs by express coach.
| e12e wrote:
| Looks like 8h30 to 9h based on a couple of searches..
| carlsborg wrote:
| Quite right. That's the Eurostar time not the bus. My
| bad. Salzburg might still work though!
| [deleted]
| zimpenfish wrote:
| > You know coaches can go straight through the Channel
| Tunnel? They board a special train.
|
| a) That's a coach, not a bus, and b) that's using a train
| to go through the tunnel and not strictly (by my definition
| at least) on a bus (or coach.)
| chrisseaton wrote:
| > That's a coach, not a bus
|
| You said:
|
| > or coach
| yosito wrote:
| I was puzzled by the fact that this person seems to have
| remained in England and didn't even make it to Scotland. I
| guess they were taking only public transport service busses and
| not express long distance busses. Seems a bit arbitrary to me.
| reedf1 wrote:
| Arbitrary in the exact same sense as seeing how far you can
| go in any form of transport?
| wincy wrote:
| I think the confusion arises because in the US we call
| anything that is a bus that takes you somewhere else
| "traveling by bus" which apparently long haul trips are
| called traveling by coach in the UK.
|
| So as an American my first thought was "heck I could
| probably get to LA from Kansas on a 24 hour bus trip" and
| to see this person traveled only a few hundred KM was
| confusing until that was clarified for me.
|
| I thought maybe they were gonna end up in Russia or
| something crazy because I have no sense of how big Europe
| is.
| Symbiote wrote:
| Europe includes a lot more water than the USA (North Sea,
| Baltic Sea, half the Mediterranean Sea), which is
| obviously a barrier to a land journey, and makes a direct
| comparison difficult.
|
| But otherwise, something like Lisbon to Moscow is very
| similar to the distance of LA to NYC.
|
| Google's driving directions for these are 45 and 41
| hours, respectively.
| AndrewDucker wrote:
| In the UK that kind of service is known as a "coach" rather
| than a "bus" generally.
| mxmilkiib wrote:
| I remember way back when the Megabus from Edinburgh to
| London was the same type of bus as the one I used to go to
| school on :) And it cost 1 quid (plus 50p booking iirc).
|
| Also, for GP, afaiu, the rules in Scotland are kinder
| (includes long distance)
| https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-
| travel/60plus-o...
|
| P.S. Hi Andy!
| goeiedaggoeie wrote:
| I took that coach often and when I finally started making
| money I decided to splurge on the sleeper train and in
| time upgraded to a cabin. what luxury compared to
| megabus!
| megablast wrote:
| You could have booked the entire bus instead.
| martin-adams wrote:
| PS1 plus 50p booking ads used to annoy me.
|
| It's PS1.50-that's the price!
| motiejus wrote:
| The booking fee is per booking, not per ticket (at least
| it was about a decade ago when I last did this route with
| megabus).
|
| So technically the ticket price can be as close to PS1 as
| you want it to be.
| Kreotiko wrote:
| 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.
| wincy wrote:
| 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?
| acallaghan wrote:
| By coach maybe, not by bus
| Kreotiko wrote:
| Good point but I have travelled from London to South Italy on
| a vehicle called bus by their operators :)
| steve-benjamins wrote:
| You should consider taking back your comment about it being
| misleading-- the author is from the UK-- vernacular is
| different for busses and coaches.
|
| Misleading is a pretty negative thing to call someones
| story!
| Kreotiko wrote:
| You are very much right, cheers
| aww_dang wrote:
| https://mycitypaper.com/fumbling-toward-portland/
|
| >Megaloping has only three simple rules. One: All vehicles used
| must be operated by a public transit company. Two: Using regional
| or long-distance transit systems is forbidden. Three: No
| megaloper can walk more than two miles.
| gandalfian wrote:
| I think he means walk on bus rather than prebooked coach.
| Otherwise there is a coach to Berlin and in 24 hours I would
| guess about Poland.
| codeulike wrote:
| _Yes, deliberately excluded coaches. Basically the rule was to
| only use routes that a older persons concessionary pass can be
| used on (I'm too young for one, but it's a useful yardstick!),
| which excludes most express coach routes._
|
| https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/142901686896309453...
| 00deadbeef wrote:
| That's generally the terminology we use in the UK.
|
| Bus = something you just walk on
|
| Coach = longer distance and prebooked
| satysin wrote:
| Yup. While not an official definition the following site has
| a decent definition of the differences
| https://www.wyattcoaches.co.uk/news/what-is-the-
| difference-b...
| [deleted]
| signal11 wrote:
| That's actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise
| Oxford dictionary app has this:
|
| coach(1) /k@UtS /
|
| > n.
|
| 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for
| longer journeys.
|
| 2 a railway carriage.
|
| 3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an
| aircraft or train.
|
| 4 a closed horse-drawn carriage.
|
| > v. travel or convey by coach.
|
| - DERIVATIVES coachload n.
|
| - ORIGIN C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szeker)
| '(wagon) from Kocs', a town in Hungary.
| Symbiote wrote:
| Single-decker seems unnecessarily restrictive.
|
| This certainly counts as a coach in the UK:
| https://greysofely.co.uk/85-seat-luxury-double-decker --
| it's the kind of thing you see bands use when touring.
| ggm wrote:
| Purely for the appropriateness of the lyric I give you Paul
| Kelly: "from St Kilda to Kings Cross is 13 hours on a bus" the
| kings Cross in question being in Sydney, not London.
|
| I've done the London - Edinburgh night bus. and, the Melbourne -
| Sydney night bus. They both kinda suck. The Edinburgh London
| pulled in at the Victoria station coach terminal, not kings Cross
| station unfortunately
|
| You should be able to get north of Aberdeen in the time limit on
| a regional.
| eesmith wrote:
| In the comments, there's a restriction - the rider is using an
| over-65s bus pass.
| denysvitali wrote:
| He is not, but he is following the rules of a over-65 bus
| pass, which exclude coaches.
|
| As far as I can tell, he is paying every single ticket and he
| is going to provide the total at the end of his journey.
| phire wrote:
| Total is PS56.95, you can see the breakdown here:
|
| https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/14290067146412974
| 1...
|
| Apparently a walk-up train fare would cost PS73.50, but he
| managed to pre-book his return trip train for PS40.90
| aix1 wrote:
| > he managed to pre-book his return trip train for
| PS40.90
|
| Those discounted fares are often tied to a specific train
| (i.e. a particular departure time on a given date). Kudos
| to the author for their faith in the ability to execute
| on the bus journey and get to the train in time for
| departure.
| pm215 wrote:
| If you check out the end of the thread you can see that
| they stayed overnight in a hotel in Morecambe and took
| the train back the next morning. There wouldn't be a
| train to catch at gone midnight when they arrived in
| Morecambe (the last sensible train option to London
| leaves at about 20:00 and takes three hours).
|
| I wonder if they had a plan B for accommodation if they'd
| missed that last bus to Morecambe, though...
| aix1 wrote:
| > following the rules of a over-65 bus pass
|
| For non-UK readers, the significance of this restriction is
| that a person who are over 65 years of age would have been
| able to make the entire journey _free of charge_.
|
| https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN0
| 1...
| akshaykumar90 wrote:
| To everyone looking for the answer:
|
| It was Morecambe, UK -- after 21hrs and 24mins.
| neonate wrote:
| https://www.google.com/maps/place/Morecambe,+UK/@54.0705645,...
| jmclnx wrote:
| Thanks, and that is quite impressive considering he was using
| what I would call public transportation
| overkill28 wrote:
| Thanks, couldn't figure out how to follow the Twitter thread to
| the end.
|
| This is a really cool idea, but I would have much preferred to
| learn about it as a blog post or YouTube video.
| pahn wrote:
| Show HN: I actually made an art installation on this question
| once: https://maschinenzeitmaschinen.de/tagged/derweil
|
| derweil is an interactive video installation correlating time,
| space and big data to provide tailor-made instructions on how to
| get lost.
|
| Materials: Google Directions and Streetview APIs, JavaScript,
| NW.js, cables.gl, Involt, Arduino IDE, computers, thermal paper,
| plastic, metals, wood.
|
| Edit: wording and spelling.
| Ichthypresbyter wrote:
| Note: the UK has long-distance bus services which could get you a
| lot further. The challenge here was to use only local bus
| services (defined as those on which people over 65 get to travel
| for free).
| lostlogin wrote:
| > long-distance bus service
|
| The National Express! I was too poor to afford the train so
| would use the busses. Often the bus was faster than the trains
| for London - Edinburgh, usually for weather related outages.
| The train is way nicer.
| Symbiote wrote:
| The train (London King's Cross to Edinburgh) is about 41/2
| hours, but the fastest National Express coach is over 9
| hours.
|
| You were incredibly unlucky if the time you took the train
| had a 5 hour delay.
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