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Bus envy soon to hit Shanghai?

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  • Diego

    In Curitiba, PR, Brazil is 25M. "Biarticulado". Since of 1992.



    View:

    w w w . onibusdecuritiba.com.br/biarti...

  • Michael

    Those busses drive on the streets of my hometown in Germany since August 2005.

  • Geoff

    We have them in the UK too, we call them trains!

  • jonnie vegas

    that's ridiculous, asians are bad at driving as it is.

  • Alboma

    Try make a left or right turn with that!

  • amanda

    Looks dangerous... if a problem occurs, hard to slow down and correct. I think the bus should be driven slowly and carefully.

  • alban

    same thing in france... I saw them in the late eighties, but I think they were immediatly dropped because they're not designed for inner city traffic

  • plex

    They always seem to be compensating for something ;-)

  • Sean

    ya, biggest everything right? Not in the pants.

  • heweitao

    That company in China only assembles buses from Neoplan. This thing is designed and manufactured in Germany by Neoplan and shipped to China as a kitset for that Chinese company to assemble to avoid import tariffs.

  • nec

    these have been around for a while here in bogota, colombia. with separate lanes and stations its the closest we have to a "tube" system. we call it transmilenio.

  • Jan de Vries

    Such long buses are used in Utrecht, The Netherlands since approx. 2002:

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  • icowraq

    looks like duct tape

  • Dexteroids

    These already drive around in Utrecht for about 2 years... so NO, China was not the first and not the longest.

  • ASav

    They should take a more out-of-the-box approach to their transportation troubles. They need to be thinking for the 21st century, A really long bus? c'mon

  • GuillaumeB

    Certianly not the largest bus in the world. Over here in France this is the classic size for all buses...

  • sdjh

    Where did they copy it this time from?

  • you

    yes we have these in louisiana as well, except they do not have wheels and just sit in your yard. we are waiting on a new alternator.

  • me

    We don't quite have buses this long in australia. Road trains only operate on interstate highways and usually move livestock. They're not people movers. The largest common, inner city buses are as long as the last two sections of this bus, with a similar mid-section.

  • me

    We don't quite have buses this long in australia. Road trains only operate on interstate highways and usually move livestock. They're not people movers. The largest common, inner city buses are as long as the last two sections of this bus, with a similar mid-section.

  • andretii

    *eager to see the 1st accident*

  • Wes

    I didn't look into it at all but one would hope this vehicle and others like it are alternatively fueled.

  • Kay

    This is rediculous, who needs this?

    China needs to rethink what they're putting their energy into.

  • borat

    yes in kazahkstan we have cart very similar to this bus

  • sdf

    And australian roadtrains are upto 53m long

  • wipeout140

    They have had them in London, England for some time

  • k

    Just more people to die when it crashes....

  • Elliot

    The road trains in Australia (and many other places?) are trucks with multiple trailers... not a single bus.

  • kakarot

    hmm, so china missed that one again. I know that double bus can run okey in cities without special lanes. But triple will probably need its own lanes.

  • Dankoozy

    They should have these in Cork

  • Hello folks!

    Here in São Paulo we have a similar bus, but slightly bigger. It's called "biarticulado" and it's 27 meters long. I couldn't find good pictures of it, but just posted a video on Sampaist. Check it out:



    Watch the video here

  • Mob_fur

    We have those here in Australia too, there are called 'Road Trains'. They are aloud up to 45 meter's long and kill anything that steps out in front of it. There are sadly speed restricted to 100km/h.

  • Adam

    This is old news here in Brazil. We have this kind of bus since 1999, we call it "biarticulado" and it only runs in special lanes built only for it.

  • Will

    I don't know about Hangzhou, but it will work we'll in Beijing, where it will be well suited for the long, wide, dead-straight boulevards of the capital. It will not do so well on Puxi's narrow, winding lanes.



    Plus, think how many taxis and bicyclists one of these could run off the road at one go. Awe-inspiring.

  • Shnugi

    Or just imagine trying to switch lanes!

  • Mitt

    Try parallel parking that!

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