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Unnecessarily long bus routes in Europe

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Not really.
The Transports Express Regionaux (T used to be for Train!) in some French regions sometimes cover quite long distances, but they don't seem unreasonable.
The longest German bus route I know of is in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Land, the 2 hours (traffic permitting) from Ribnitz Damgarten station to Barth station - but it links a whole load of coastal resorts.
In the Czech Republic I've come across a number of rather random bus links, usually one per day, but overlapping partly with other routes. It makes reading the paper timetables (even the summaries, if provided) at bus stops problematic....
 

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All German bus routes I'm familiar with are fairly short, quite often linking with train services, even in Berlin they're not that long as West has busses and East has trams
 

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The longest bus route in Belgium is line 1011 Liège - Athus, operated by TEC. It takes 3 hours and 8 minutes.
 

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Rede Expressos A4143 from Lisboa Sete Rios to Frankfurt Hbf. 3050km distance in just 38 hours starting at 160€...

Seriously, how do people prefer to use this over a Ryanair Flight?
 

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Rede Expressos A4143 from Lisboa Oriente to Frankfurt Hbf. 3048km distance starting at 155€...

Seriously, how do people prefer to use this over a Ryanair Flight?

Usually its due to ability to take more/heavier luggage
 

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Just came back from a short trip to DE and AT yesterday.
Here in NL many of former quite long )in time, often not that much in distance) are-were split, as they went in 2 concession areas. There was a line via all new dams and dykes in the Zeeland area from Spijkenisse, end of metro to Midelburg/Vlissingen, serving only quite necessary villages and areas off the trainlines.
In DE there certainly are many more longer buslines, esp in the hilly-mountainous areas in the south, were rail is of course sparse. Check RVO°Oberbayernbus, which has-had a line, but just 1/2 times daily, connecting most of all those southern railends.
In AT I rode in a splendid Setra doubledeck coach-bus 950X from Lienz in transito via italy to Innsbruck, all the way parralleling trains, single is 17,50, which is oin fact the MAX single anywhere in Tirol, but I used a 7day all Tirol pass for bus and train for just 45eur.
Anohter reason ti split them is the ever stricter rules on driver/work/hours.
HU with the old Volan also has a lot of buslines of 5/6 hrs linking direct towns were rail would be the long way round.
 
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