China’s amazing traffic-straddling bus hits the road
The elevated bus will undergo pilot projects in five cities. Photo: Xinhua News.
China’s much-vaunted elevated bus has hit the road with its first test ride this week in the northeastern city of Qinhuangdao.
Images of the futuristic elevated bus that drove above and past cars on conventional roads, surfaced last May, but with no word on whether the radical project would become a reality.
The bus can reportedly carry up to 300 passengers. Photo: Xinhua News.
The Chinese company that designed the bus has announced that its “Trans Elevated Bus”, or TEB-1, was in fact in the process of being built and that it had hit the road.
Pictures on China’s Xinhua News show the bus which measures almost 22m long, more than 7.6m wide and almost 5m high.
The bus, which rides on tracks built into the street, can reportedly carry up to 300 passengers and allows cars just over 2m clearance with which to travel underneath.
The bus first emerged in 2010, but resurfaced last May at a technology expo in Beijing.
The company behind the bus has reported that five cities have agreed to undertake pilot projects for the vehicle.
See the bus in action:
