1000 Passenger bus

[Jeremy]

But probably not much use for a conversion:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36390419

Jeremy

[CrabbyMilton]

That does look interesting. However, I would put that more in the category of a streetcar. Just imagine driving your car and that thing comes over you. "They're here!!!!!!!" "Martians have landed"!

[Scott & Heather]

Cool thing is when it's raining really hard you just keep up with the bus and stay underneath


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[Dave5Cs]

Don't change lanes while its over you eh!...

[Iceni John]

I wondering how long it would be until a truck or high vehicle ends up in the cars-only lanes underneath.   Trucks hitting low bridges is one thing, but being squashed by moving bridges is somewhat unusual.

With traffic congestion as it is in China, how long until they have to have a second wider and higher one to straddle all the other gridlocked straddle buses below?

John

[TomC]

Oh yeah-that's going to work well?! I can only imagine the collisions and people freaking out when it goes overhead

[chessie4905]

I want to watch the first video of it operating under non controlled conditions. I thought we only  had that type of futuristic designer.

[Jeremy]

Oh yeah-that's going to work well?! I can only imagine the collisions and people freaking out when it goes overhead

Well people were famously freaked-out by escalators when they were first invented. Probably happened with elevators and revolving doors too. People learn to get over their freak quickly enough.

Slightly different topic but kinda related - my Dad used to work for a company that built cranes and parts for oil rigs (spent some time in Texas too), and a few weeks ago I sent him a link to a Youtube video of a bridge-building machine which totally freaked HIM out. Another example of how the Chinese are often way beyond the West in engineering imagination and ambition, and their willingness to back-up that imagination and ambition with money:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbaD2-2Ktwc




Jeremy

[CrabbyMilton]

I I I I'm going to throw myself in front of it...not kidding I'm going to. Here it comes...HAHAHA it missed me I fooled you HAHAHAHA.
I just wonder how that would work over here in the snow belt. Cars sliding into it underneath.
The people will have to climb a bit just to get in. Uh Oh, the ADA extremists will get all over that.

[Lin]

China has done some amazing engineering projects to try deal with their some of their huge problems.  I saw a documentary about prefab apartment buildings that put up in a couple of weeks.  On the other hand, they enthusiastically built whole cities where no one lives.

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities/
But don't worry about having to climb to get into the bus.  They are used to it!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3606243/Is-dangerous-school-journey-Children-remote-Chinese-village-climb-17-unsecured-cliff-ladders-home-class.html

[CrabbyMilton]

I know they are used to that climbing. Really have to like school I guess. No skoolie can climb that huh?
I meant that the ADA people over here would have a problem with people having to climb up into that think. Why do you think transit buses are all low floor? They get up in arms that people have to climb a few stairs to board a traditional transit bus so what makes you think they would give something like that an exemption over here?

[rusty]

Machines just keep getting bigger. A similar cantry crane was used to build the elevated road section in Glenwood canyon on I70 in Colorado in the 80's. But the section were only 8 or 10 feet long and were held together with post tensioned cables.

Wayne

[HB of CJ]

When I worked summers at Yosemite National Park in 1970, the Park Service was talking about a huge 12x50 double decker low speed shuttle bus for the Valley Floor.

ACE:  American Carrier Equipment made some smaller, (still large at 8x40) double decker shuttle buses.  Pieces of junk.  How a huge bus would have worked I dunno.

The sketches I saw would not have worked that well.  Anyhow, way back then our Big Brother was considering huge buses to handle the huge summer tourist numbers.

[Scott & Heather]

FYI, Google this: China is making land. Seriously. They are manufacturing huge islands in the ocean. Google it. Forget German, we will all be speaking mandarin soonz


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[TomC]

Think about it-China is about the same physical size as U.S. with 3 times the population. With China being just about the oldest civilization, I'm surprised more countries don't speak Chinese. One things for sure, U.S. and China are attached at the hip for business.