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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
Just to add to the above guys answers.
Маршрутка (Marshrutka) is a slang. It's a shortened version of "Маршрутное такси" (can be roughly translated as "Routed" taxi, essentially a ...
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
In my experience, the best price is typically to be had by looking at bus services other than Greyhound. This experience is from 10 to 15 years ago, so it looks like both Greyhound and the non-Acela ...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
This answer would be incomplete without a picturesque Marshrutka:
(courtesy Wikipedia)
A typical 13-pax GAZel painted in yellow and with route details.
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
You can for sure take a car at Dulles and leave it at LGA/JFK, but keep in mind that one-way rentals will always be more expensive than a return one and you need to factor going to/from airports which ...
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How do I get from Tbilisi to Yerevan?
Good thing you ask, because I searched for it before going to the Caucasus last year and couldn't find much. Fortunately, I have the answer to your question.
I did Tbilisi–Yerevan back and forth by ...
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Alternatives to taxis in Japan
Navigating central Tokyo by car is an expensive, confusing pain, so the Japanese solution is to take the train out to the general area you want to explore, then rent a car at the station. JR's Ekiren ...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
The greatest danger of marshrutkis are lax regulations in terms of safety, driver qualifications and quality of service. Many small private companies will try to save on vehicle repairs and driver ...
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
If you want the cheapest, look into the Chinatown Bus lines. I have had friends take them from DC to New York. The buses depart at early morning hours, but the trip is fast and cheap.
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
A great resource for this type of search is is Rome to Rio. For this specific search check https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Washington/New-York#r/Bus/s/0.
The site lists more than a dozen daily bus ...
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Mountain road between Batumi and Akhaltsikhe
I drove this route in a Lada Niva.
It's not dangerous at all and not so mountainous as you might think. The biggest part of the road from Batumi to Akhaltsikhe is not asphalted but is wide enough to ...
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LAX to Anaheim Transfer?
A cheaper option is to take the LA Metro from LAX and transfer onto a local bus to Anaheim.
From the LAX terminals, you can take the free shuttle bus to the Aviation/LAX LA Metro station. From there, ...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
Маршрутка (marshrutka) is like a private minibus, it is privately owned:
a way of public transport, private minibus. It is very common in Russia and other neighboring countries.#
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Dangerous?
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Alternatives to taxis in Japan
You can try taking a local bus, but it does take a bit of planning. They are almost always on time, and pretty easy to use. Some of them are pay by trip, and others are pay by distance. You can ...
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Alternatives to taxis in Japan
Driving in Japan is easier than you imagine it might be, though I would hesitate to drive in Tokyo. The car I rented in Hokkaido in 2016 had navigation in English (I had to specifically request this ...
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LAX to Anaheim Transfer?
The cheapest, but also probably most timeconsuming option seems to be a combination of Flyaway bus and Metrolink:
Take the Flyaway bus to Union station (bus runs approx. every 30 minutes), info at ...
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
Amtrak is a civilized alterative to the bus. They claim $31 with discount for advance purchase. It's sort of a commuter route, so there should be options.
https://www.amtrak.com/experience/why-amtrak/...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
In the city in Ukraine were I live the маршрутка (marshrutka) are basically just the buses that go around the city. They are privately owned - there are no publicly owned buses (although there are ...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
In addition to other answers, some points that are specific to Nizhny Novgorod (I live in Nizhny myself).
Firstly, in many Russian cities the marshrutkas are small minibuses like in alamar's answer (...
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What time do buses and marshrutkas leave from Tbilisi for the Azerbaijan border?
You have to go to the main station and ask around, the prices are very different as there are no actual companies driving. The drivers are individuals who drive families and tourist to the borders.
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Best/Cheapest way to go from Washington DC to NYC, Manhattan
Multiple bus lines serve this route (Vamoose, Greyhound, Megabus, others). Fares of $25–30 are common. I would pick based on convenience of departure and arrival locations, which vary.
Amtrak non-...
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A late bus/marshrutka/train from Tbilisi to Batumi
Only answering the night train part:
The train website offers a schedule which mentions a train from Tbilisi to Batumi departing at 00:30:
However, it also mentions a date on the right (you have to ...
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What are the options of getting from Beyneu to Aktau in Kazakhstan?
There's a train to Aktau that will set you back 20-30$
According to Caravanistan, there are shared taxis that will take you there too, for about 500 tenge, though from my searching around everyone ...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
As others have already correctly said, "marshrutka" is a colloquial version of "marshrutnoe taksi", that is, "routed taxi". This concept emerged in late 1930s when Moscow started operating a few ZiS-...
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What exactly is a marshrutka (маршрутка)?
In my city, we also have private buses - but they are not too different from normal buses, so people would just say "bus".
Historically, the main distinction between marshrutkas and public buses was ...
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Kamjanez-Podilsky to Lwiw?
Here's the solution.
I fear I have to confess it's more a question of an XY-Problem. I mainly needed to get to Katwice, but I really wanted to re-visit Lwiw. In the last days of my journey I found a ...
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Kamjanez-Podilsky to Lwiw?
I didn't see any results after 9th Feb, which is 15 days from now, so I went digging into the site's terms and conditions, where I found this relevant bit:
3.2.5.4. The extreme date of operations ...
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Kamjanez-Podilsky to Lwiw?
There are some results on Yandex Timetables.
Not sure if they are super accurate. Have you tried phoning the Central Bus Station of departure?
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