1. Traffic danger. Do you seriously expect people in traffic to always keep an eye out for this one? They are moving in and out of lanes, someone will stop on the tracks and a crash is unavoidable.
2. This is meant to alleviate congestion, yet it is designed around the very notion that congestion exists. If anything, it permits people to keep taking the car. The vehicle is adjusted for cars, rather than the other way around.
3. It's not a bus. It's a tram. Just saying.
4. No trucks can drive underneath it anyway. It would also be limited to routes with no overhead bridges and similar.
This is how fast it's going to take the curves, at best. Keep in mind this thing is much heavier than those trains and has a higher center of gravity, and even though the rails are far apart, there's only so much lateral force they can take.
Except unlike this, it's at street level so everyone has to wait for it to budge. On a supposedly congested 2-lane highway intersection.
I'd say if you have the vertical space to spare, build an elevated monorail. Safe, easy. Higher construction costs at first, but compared to this, it will pay for itself faster and actually do the job it was built to do.
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Drury wrote:I'd say if you have the vertical space to spare, build an elevated monorail. Safe, easy. Higher construction costs at first, but compared to this, it will pay for itself faster and actually do the job it was built to do.
Yup. This feels like a bad compromise between a bus and an elevated railway, with the worst features of the two being combined to make this.
One of those over ambitious projects that will probably never come about. I can see this going down the same tracks as the APT did, just at a broader gauge
Seriously, though. I am greatly disappointed with whoever came up with... this.
How are you going make repairs to the power supply without tearing the road apart?
What if the emergency door opens out in front of a lorry doing the ton?
What if a passenger can't get to the lifts cause of congestion? (seriously, though, those lifts look so awkward)
Not to mention that the designers are hypocritical as they say that building an elevated railway is expensive but this... thing apparently isn't.
I am hugely dissapointed as it is clearly obvious little thought has gone into this. This sort of material would not even be worthy of a C in a GCSE project...
My biggest issue with this is that it claims to solve congestion but actively encouraging car use by freeing the road up underneath. Make the car unattractive and then there will be room for buses or light rail on the ground.