While Australian innovation and science is in its death throes, China is evolving urban transport solutions. The Transit Elevated Bus is a solution to reducing the cost of transit systems below that of overhead and underground transit systems.

Is this China's new great leap?

Where is Australia's innovation? Is a modernized version of the stump jump plough planned?

https://youtu.be/bpiFJsWdCuY

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/07/04/straddling_bus_starts_production.php


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The so-called "straddling bus," an elevated public transit system that has generated renewed interest after a real honest-to-god mini model was unveiled at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo in May, starts production this week. The future is now! According to the Global Times, China's world-famous Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) will consist of four cars in total, each being about 22 meters long, 7.8 meters wide and 4.8 meters high. Jinchuang Corp, located in Changzhou, Jiangsu, has the honor of producing the first model. The chief engineer of the project, Song Youzhou, says that "some portion of the bus will be made of glass to make passengers feel less confined. Song added that the bus will be able to take up to 1,200 passengers and is completely operated by electric power. The TEB has received some rather mixed reviews from the Chinese online community since its re-introduction in May. While some are patriotically ecstatic about the invention -- "We Chinese finally came up with something original for once" -- others remain pessimistic about the project, saying that they would rather not "drive under a moving tunnel, unable to see the street lights." Workers had better hurry up, because the TEB is scheduled for a (lame) test run in August. We can't wait!

Having lived in Shanghai for 18 moths I can tell you they really have their rail system pretty well right.For a few Cents you can travel on clean, well maintained and ON TIME trains all over Shanghai.

The announcements are absolutely clear and easily understood, the moving signs are legible and in both English and Chinese.

Each station is marked with color coded tracks to make it virtually impossible to get lost, even Gregory Pecary would have trouble stuffing it up.

They recognized some time ago that traffic was going to be a problem, so they made elevated roads all over Shanghai.
I can just imagine Australia trying that stunt, by the time they got through the NIMBYS, Abbo land rights, council regulations and the RMA imbecilic confuser, it would be 2090, and by then we would have hover cars and wouldn't need it.

If the road was started, it would take the powers to be over 100 years to make the roads, Our RMA have not succeeded in making a simple highway from Sydney to Brisbane in the last 40 years, imagine if they had to do it and it wasn't just bulldozing trees and painting the ground black?
Imagine if they had to actually engineer the roads?

Forget it, it would never happen.

RMA = Retard Movement in Australia

While Chinas progress in public transport is impressive, it helps when there are no annoying hindrances like environmental impact studies, land requisition issues, OH+S, award wages etc.

If the Fat Controller stuffs up - he gets a bullet to the head... works every time...

(Downe at Ye Olde Chinee Traffice Courte)...

"I denounce you, capitalist bandit slow runner of train!  You Numbah Ten, face People's Justice in morning!  Guilty!..... Next case...."