Giant Straddling Bus could be coming soon

[Alex_Spider]

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/09/18/giant-straddling-bus-could-be-coming-soon/

A giant moving tunnel, the Straddling Bus (3D Bus), caring with hundreds of people, could be coming down the road soon.

The incredible Straddling Bus, that appeared three years ago, steps across two lanes with hollow lower part, so cars can pass through.

Compared with Metro, it has lower cost, shorter construction period and almost same passenger capacity.

Giant-Straddling-Bus-could-be-coming-soon-7-640x353

http://wordlesstech.com/2010/10/30/the-monster-straddling-bus-allows-cars-to-pass-underneath/

With the giant, lane-straddling bus Chinese engineers hope will someday conquer that country’s legendary traffic by swallowing it whole is one step closer to cruising over rush hours in Los Angeles.

The Straddling Bus is one part monorail, one part monster truck. As the incredibly awesome illustration above shows, the extra-wide, extra-tall bus straddles two lanes of traffic, allowing passenger cars and small trucks to pass underneath.

“The word ‘revolutionary’ is so overused, but this new bus actually is revolutionary,” said company spokesman Mark Shieh. Relative to the cost of a subway line or other rail transit, our bus delivers extraordinary value. Aside from the low cost, the time for construction is about one third that for a subway.”

Lots of cool photos in the links above. God knows how desperately the overcrowded polluted cities need this type of transportation.

 

[knowsbleed]

You got me excited with the title, then let me down with the reality, then got me excited again with the pictures. This has been an emotional read.

 

[Alex_Spider]

lol. We can always dream...

 

[Ultimatehero]

I'm unsure about this. Wouldn't this just get congested as well? "We can go this way and beat the traffic!" Then TONS of people have the same idea and pretty soon THAT way IS the way that has the traffic. Unless this thing travels freaking fast - I don't see how it will alleviate traffic, more of a moth to a flame going on here.

 

[Alex_Spider]

I'm unsure about this. Wouldn't this just get congested as well? "We can go this way and beat the traffic!" Then TONS of people have the same idea and pretty soon THAT way IS the way that has the traffic. Unless this thing travels freaking fast - I don't see how it will alleviate traffic, more of a moth to a flame going on here.

Ah, I'm pretty sure the designers have planned every tiny detail. People would still use cars and other means of transportation though. I don't see how everyone would get at the same time on those buses like you describe. There would just be fewer cars, just like some people take the subway nowadays.

 

[Ultimatehero]

From the pictures it looks like the CARS go onto the bus -- basically an exit ramp to by-pass traffic by riding within a disclosed tube. So, that is using a car. As said - it does sound like a moth to a flame. If its a long stop for the bus, people will eventually just take the other congested way. If it's a fast wait, people will flock to the bus. If people flock to the bus, you're going to create congestion right there. What is stop people from going the "fastest" way?

 

[Hotwire]

From the pictures it looks like the CARS go onto the bus -- basically an exit ramp to by-pass traffic by riding within a disclosed tube. So, that is using a car. As said - it does sound like a moth to a flame. If its a long stop for the bus, people will eventually just take the other congested way. If it's a fast wait, people will flock to the bus. If people flock to the bus, you're going to create congestion right there. What is stop people from going the "fastest" way?

Um, people would drive under the bus. The bus would be able to travel along the same roads as the cars but without forcing the cars to stop. Think of a moving tunnel.

 

[Ultimatehero]

EXACTLY, but what would stop multiple people from flooding to that tunnel if it was the fastest route and then when that happens - what stops it from becoming congested itself? If it was just an elevated train that would be one thing -- but this is a train that transports CARS from one area to the next. We aren't talking about implementing this in residential areas or the midwest. But in Los freaking Angeles - there is no way in hell this thing won't become over crowded as well.

You see this in other areas too. But, you see that traffic is flooding on the highway. You go the back way only to find that hundreds of more people had the same exact idea and now the highway is moving fast and the back streets are moving slow. This is how people think - they go the way that they believe will be the fastest. If this moving tunnel gets them through faster, you are guaranteed to see more people starting to take it than the slower route.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I'm just picturing the unsettling image of the mythological creature doing ungodly things to a bus.

 

[knowsbleed]

EXACTLY, but what would stop multiple people from flooding to that tunnel if it was the fastest route and then when that happens - what stops it from becoming congested itself? If it was just an elevated train that would be one thing -- but this is a train that transports CARS from one area to the next. We aren't talking about implementing this in residential areas or the midwest. But in Los freaking Angeles - there is no way in hell this thing won't become over crowded as well.

What are you talking about?

 

[Hotwire]

EXACTLY, but what would stop multiple people from flooding to that tunnel if it was the fastest route and then when that happens - what stops it from becoming congested itself? If it was just an elevated train that would be one thing -- but this is a train that transports CARS from one area to the next. We aren't talking about implementing this in residential areas or the midwest. But in Los freaking Angeles - there is no way in hell this thing won't become over crowded as well.

It doesn't transport cars. It transports people ABOVE the cars. The advantage would be that cars would no longer need to stop for the buses. It takes them out of the traffic pattern.

 

[Ultimatehero]

EDIT: Nm pic confused the hell out of me.

For some strange reason I thought it was transporting cars in this one like a ferry for the road.

 

[knowsbleed]

What are you talking about? .

 

[knowsbleed]

That thing doesn't carry cars. Are you high?

 

[Dark Raven]

I thought this was a giant bus where people could straddle each other.

 

[Ultimatehero]

That thing doesn't carry cars. Are you high?

I already explained in the above. Are you high?

And yeah, that pic seriously did look like a ferry on the road to me for some reason -- think it's just the angle of the pic that that road looks really really small and cramped.

 

[knowsbleed]

You edited your post... you edited it really fast... but still an edit. It's okay to be wrong.

 

[Ultimatehero]

You edited your post... you edited it really fast... but still an edit. It's okay to be wrong.

Oh. Thought it was in regards to the edited post -- thought it took longer for me to edit it.

 

[knowsbleed]

I don't see that thing taking curves too well.

 

[Alex_Spider]

lol it's ok. many times we get confused on simple things.