China's Elevated Bus Project Seemed Too Good To Be True — And It Was
Project promoters claimed the giant, elevated vehicle would beat traffic jams by straddling traffic. Last week, they were arrested for fraud. "The idea was absurd, childish," says a longtime critic.
by Anthony Kuhn
Jul 06, 2017
2 minutes
In China, a futuristic new kind of urban transport that its promoters claimed would beat traffic jams appears to have gone off the rails. That became clear when police arrested the people behind the project for suspected fraud last week.
Dubbed the Transit Elevated Bus, the vehicle looks a
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