Now That’s What I Call A Mega Bendy Bus!
Bendy buses weren’t liked in London and although some places in Europe have them, they are nothing like the mega-bendies from Brazil discussed in this article on Global Rail News, which is entitled New mega-buses to replace trams?.
This is the opening paragraph.
Could advances in bus design threaten the role of trams on busy routes? New, longer designs which carry more passengers and combine flexibility with vast capacity.
On the other hand, I don’t see why a bendy bus with driving cabs at each end, running in a dedicated traffic lane or perhaps in a concrete guided busway couldn’t be used on a fixed link between say a railway station and the centre of a city. A double-ended design would eliminate the need to turn the bus, which is a big space-hungry problem
I think that once, one city, airport or attraction develops this idea successfully, then the idea could spread!
The chassis developed by Volvo in Brazil mentioned in the article, would certainly be a good starting point.
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