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China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus capable of gliding over the nightmarish mega-jams for which urban China has become notorious. The "straddling bus," which owes more to Blade Runner than China's car-clogged highways, is supported by two legs that run along rails laid along the roadside. Those legs allow the Transit Explore Bus, or TEB's giant frame to glide high above the gridlock at speeds of up to 60km per hour. Equally, vehicles that are less than two metres high will be able to drive freely underneath the bus, even when it is stationary. "The biggest advantage is that the bus will save lots of road space," Song Youzhou, the project's chief engineer, told Xinhua, China's official news agency. Song claimed his buses, capable of transporting up to 1,400 commuters, could be produced for 20% of the price of an underground train and rolled out far more quickly since the supporting infrastructure was relatively simple. One TEB could replace 40 conventional buses, he said.You can watch the concept video here. Interestingly a very similar -- if not the exact same -- concept has come out of China before. Not sure what kind of developments have been made in the six years since then.
Old news. Just new hype.
http://www.chinahush.com/2010/...
Not a real thing, not practical in almost any area that needs high capacity transit, and just a distraction from real things we already know how to build but refuse to pay for.
Bumper sticker on the bus says "Your horn will not make me produce stilts to lift myself out of your way."
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It's stuck to and rides upon rails. It's not a bus, it's a train or tram.
Not even my bike fits under that bus. And although a Whike is quite high, it is road legal and conforms to the traffic sizes (which are based on a firetruck where I live). 2 meters is way too low to be able to pass regular traffic. The first van or truck would stop the bus dead in its tracks.
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It's not meant to replace regular surface buses, it's meant to replace building a hugely expensive subway line.
When there's too many straddling buses and they get backed up, then they'll make an even wider stradling bus stradling bus. That's why they're leaving the third lane.
It's straddle buses all the way down.
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Probably need guardrails too, to prevent people from driving into the sides of the bus.
Other videos I've seen have shown it running on raised rails that run all along either side of the ride.
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But not in their own back yard...