Ranking the World's 5 Worst Bus Rides
Most "worst bus journey" lists just count hours. This one doesn't. Working from a listener's detailed brief, we rank five real long-haul routes by the full stack of misery: duration, facilities, road surface, reliability, border friction, and documented safety record — with extra weight given to journeys that end somewhere utterly ordinary. The rubric matters: a sixty-hour highway haul with reclining seats is a nap with scenery, while a thirty-hour unpaved mountain run on bench seats is a different genre of human experience. Along the way we dig into the gap between the published timetable…
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