It isn't really 50 cross-border routes on the island of Ireland though - more like under 40 as many of the Translink routes that you've listed are such minor variants of one another that I would not class them as separate routes. Also, the X32 no longer exists.
It does indeed. I got a frosty reception at first when I tried to pay for beer with euros there. I had assumed that, being German territory, that would be what was expected. My realising that the euros were unwelcome and getting out CHF, and the landlady realising I was English rather than German and was making an innocent mistake, established friendlier relations. Apparently AfD supporters sometimes go there and insist on paying with euros to make the point it is German territory, and I had been mistaken for one of them at first.
Campione D Italia is another very similar place just like the Busingen Am Hochrhein exclave. It is a piece of Italy surrounded by Switzerland and it also uses CHF as its main currency. It has two cross border routes. Bus route 439 runs from Campione D Italia (IT) to Lugano (CH) and is operated by a Swiss bus company. Bus route C126 operates from Campione D Italia (IT) to Mendrisio (CH) to Chiasso (CH) to Como (IT) and is operated by an Italian bus company.
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That presumably means they go through four border controls within a space of about four miles. You have to go through Croatian exit control then Bosnian entry control then Bosnian exit control then Croatian entry control. Must be a very slow journey. I am surprised they do not just use the bridge to stay in Croatia and avoid crossing in to Bosnia at all.
If there is a bridge it's very new, and doesn't appear on my map.
The bridge opened on 26 July 2022 so it is about four years old now. It enables you to stay in Croatia and avoid Bosnia completely. Croatia is in the Schengen area. Bosnia is not in the Schengen area. So there will have to be four lots of border control for anyone passing through here. There is no way the Schengen rules would allow a lack of border control.
Your reply crossed my edited post. There is indeed a bridge now so the anomaly is removed.
There are copious cross border buses from Luxembourg to Germany, France and Belgium. I've caught that particular bus to Vianden (to visit the castle, naturally)
Canada and USA have the same thing with their local bus routes. Whatcom County Transit operate a bus route on the USA side to and from Sumas which terminates by the border post. BC Transit operate a bus route on the Canada side to and from Huntingdon which terminates by the border post. You just have a one or two minute walk on either side from the bus stop to the border. You can even get all the way from Vancouver to Tijuana entirely by local buses except for these border crossings where you have to walk across.
There are also quite a few local Haparanda and Tornio town bus routes that operate around the towns and cross over the border.
There are no buses across the border between Gibraltar and Spain at present - you have to walk through the border controls. However from July, Gibraltar will effectively become part of Schengen and the border fence and controls will be removed. It will interesting to see if the frequent Algeciras to La Línea service is extended into Gibraltar or if some of the internal Gibraltar routes are extended to La Línea or beyond.
I found this in Sarajevo a few years ago. To travel east you have to go to the Eastern bus station (which confusingly is in the south-west of the city), in the Republika Srpska sector. The border between the 2 sectors is invisible, you can drive and walk across, but as far as I could find out, no buses cross it as the two networks are entirely separate and you have to walk across.
It's in the list I've linked earlier this topic. But Zeeuws-Vlaanderen is odd indeed. There is also route 19 which runs from Hulst to Roosendaal via Belgium. Previously it ran to Breda with stop in Antwerp.
There's a very long and informative page in German about the history of a particular bus service across the border from West Berlin at the following link:
In addition to my previous post: this route already existed prior to the existance of Schengen as since the 1953 floods Zeeuws-Vlaanderen became isolated from the Netherlands. Back then however it was strictly forbidden to (dis)embark in Belgium and customs officers were on the bus to prevent that.
I've visited Luxembourg a lot, and the buses with trailers you refer to often headed to France - mainly Thionville but also Metz and Yutz. The contractor for this route was a Luxembourgish company called "Voyages Vandivinit" - like Voyages Emile Weber, more known for package holidays.
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I have just booked a ticket for the Expressway route 30 (Donegal to Dublin) for a journey from Belleek to Enniskillen. The journey is wholly within the UK, but the fare is in Euros. I do not know whether people paying on boarding at stops in Northern Ireland can pay with sterling, but advance bookings are certainly in Euros.
