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China’s Road-Straddling Bus Has Been Blocking Traffic for Months

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 24 2016, @09:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-a-rethink dept.

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China's once-celebrated Traffic Elevated Bus (TEB) (reported here) has been left abandoned in the middle of a Hebei city road, not having moved once in over two months. Originally touted as the futuristic solution to urban traffic jams, the "straddling bus" is currently causing them.

A local reporter recently checked up on "the future of public transportation" at its testing site in Qinhuangdao, only to find it forgotten in a rusted garage, covered in dust. The bus is currently being looked after by a pair of old security guards who reluctantly admit that they've been forgotten about as well.

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/12/05/straddling_bus_abandoned.php

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @10:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @10:34AM (#445766)

    It was engineered, not reverse-engineered. This is why it doesn't work.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:53PM (#445865)

    Woo ha only americans can build stuff woot woot USA a-okay