{"id":4502,"date":"2016-08-08T16:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2016-08-08T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:51:52","slug":"transit-elevated-bus-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/08\/transit-elevated-bus-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Elevated Bus, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently linked<\/a> to Treehugger<\/b><\/i>‘s coverage of the\u00a0Transit Elevated Bus<\/b><\/i>. Now Treehugger<\/b><\/i>‘s Lloyd Alter is pointing out <\/a>that in 1969 Lester Walker came up with idea of the Landliner<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The Bos-Wash Landliner rides on nearly friction free air cushion bearings at 200 miles per hour. It is powered by turbine powered ducted fan-jets that have a regenerator cycle to consume the hot exhaust. Much like the Chinese system, it is designed to use existing roads without obstructing the traffic on them. …<\/p>\n

Because it is traveling farther, it has more facilities than the Chinese version and sports a gymnasium, theater, restaurants, snack bars, ballrooms, conference rooms and observation decks.<\/p>\n

There is no jarring starting and stopping at stations like there is with regular trains either, because the Landliner never stops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never stops? Treehugger <\/b><\/i>quotes Walker:<\/p>\n

Both bus and landliner are travelling at 60 mile per hour, their speeds locked together by computer; then a great claw descends from the landliner to “swallow” the bus. Once inside, passengers disembark and enjoy the facilities. Since the buses circle a city picking up commuters, driving the car to the station and leaving it all day will be a thing of the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An ambitious vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently linked to Treehugger‘s coverage of the\u00a0Transit Elevated Bus. Now Treehugger‘s Lloyd Alter is pointing out that in 1969 Lester Walker came up with idea of the Landliner: The Bos-Wash Landliner rides on nearly friction free air cushion bearings at 200 miles per hour. It is powered by turbine \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}