{"id":5769,"date":"2014-02-05T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/02\/us-intercity-bus-and-train-routes\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:05:37","slug":"us-intercity-bus-and-train-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/02\/us-intercity-bus-and-train-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of U.S. Intercity Bus and Train Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aibra.org\/pdf\/usmap.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonathancrowe.net\/images\/2014\/public-transport.jpg\" alt=\"Map of public transport in the U.S.\" class=\"image-inline\" style=\"width: 600px; height: auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aibra.org\/pdf\/usmap.pdf\">This map from the American Intercity Bus Riders Association<\/a> (PDF) attempts to map every intercity bus and train route in the United States\u2014i.e., everywhere you can go without a car. It&#8217;s a huge, high-resolution, detailed map, and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they missed some. [<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/heres-how-to-travel-the-entire-country-without-ever-getting-in-a-car\/\">Grist<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gislounge\/posts\/10203165667089514\">GIS Lounge<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map from the American Intercity Bus Riders Association (PDF) attempts to map every intercity bus and train route in the United States\u2014i.e., everywhere you can go without a car. It&#8217;s a huge, high-resolution, detailed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/02\/us-intercity-bus-and-train-routes\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1043,1044,40,39,41],"class_list":["post-5769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-buses","tag-intercity","tag-railroads","tag-railways","tag-trains","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844894,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/08\/using-emoji-to-depict-train-delays\/","url_meta":{"origin":5769,"position":0},"title":"Using Emoji to Depict Train Delays","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 August 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Bloomberg (screenshot) It\u2019s a single animated map in a larger, infographic-rich Bloomberg CityLab article about how NJ Transit is the least reliable New York City area commuter rail service, but you can\u2019t help but pay attention to a map that uses emoji to indicate how late a train is. 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