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I saw this movie. The bus even had a small swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley. I don’t think this could happen because there would be no way that the liberals would allow nuclear powered buses. Yeah, if you watched the movie, it was a nuclear powered bus.
I don’t think this could happen because there would be no way that the liberals would allow nuclear powered buses
And that’s your reason this couldn’t happen?
I don’t think it would happen because, a bus, even a real fancy one is still a bus. People don’t like having to take the bus, and buses unlike rail, gets stuck in the same traffic as cars.
Now, you can make a movie about nearly anything. I mean, they made a movie out of Marmaduke for Christ’s sake!
Another famous bus movie: Speed
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
#3, people may not like taking a bus, but bus ridership hit record numbers this year. It’s getting really popular with college students, especially with MegaBus and BoltBus. The new busses even have free Wifi. The ridership depends on geographical location though, because buses and trains are popular in the midwest and east coast but not so much on the west coast.
I know a lot of people here talk smack about public transportation, probably because they don’t use it so it’s not important to them. But public transportation is growing rapidly in the USA, Amtrak’s ridership has increased by 11% each year over the past eight years and bus transportation went up by 400% since four years ago.
“What Comes After High Speed Rail?”
Probably the same answer as: “What do you call a man without a horse?”
And the answer is: “afoot.”
Any form of mass transit works better than individual transportation ONCE the mass density is sufficient. Until then, not.
Silly Hoomans = Its MATH!
The Boston-NY-Washington corridor could definitely use a real high-speed rail link.
Mass transit can follow established density, or it can determine where future density will be established.
Not being one for herd mentality, I would prefer something far more usable (and real) in the foreseeable future..
The WaterCar:
-stick a Searl Effect Generator and it’d be almost perfect
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Lets see…
What is going to happen, AFTER?
EFFICIENCY, over speed..
Then we will learn how to make things FASTER, better.
ONLY police will have things FASTER, less Efficient..
Just as the POLICE chase cars we have NOW..
If you’re poor enough, you’ll take the bus. (The way the economy’s going, you’ll soon be poor enough. [How do you feel about Gates and Buffet and about 1,000 of their closets friends giving their excess profits back. Shove your “Don’t tax the rich” attitude Mr. Bush, Think we could use THAT to reduce the deficit? {Akito Morita, the founder of Sony, held that NOBODY was entitled to more than a million dollars a year.}])
Its a question of choice. Poor people don’t have a choice. They’ll take the bus because they’re poor.
Besides, buses can be an intermediate step to a high-speed rail link, like small “feeder airlines” between major, jet capable airports, before reverting you to the usual inner-city “Garbage Scow” currently on the road.
Japan doesn’t just have Shinkasen bullet trains and France doesn’t just have the TGV.
They have a lot of intermediate electrified rail solutions (they’re like the PATH here in New York, or BART in San Francisco,) before dumping you at a combination rail/bus station.
Trains run on flat gradients. Buses can climb a hill without necessarily having to cut a canyon through the countryside.
“If you’re poor enough, you’ll take the bus.” ///
Yes, or if its crowded enough. With bus lanes and no stopping for tolls, quite a few cities have very good bus service from local suburbs into down town. Course you have to have a functioning downtown in that scenario. Think San Francisco.
Mass Transit =requires= Mass Density.
Mass transit as part of planned future growth? Its definitional. Stossel let an Amtrax guy off the hook on that subject: Is an empty bus/train actually providing “mass transit” or something else?
ALL buses are short buses. —-MacBandit 2010
Think San Francisco? OK. Here’s your SF Bus ride.
Ok, thats funny. Love the balloon thoughts.
So, which is preferred? Sitting on the bus ignoring these people, or having these people on the road with you?
6 = half dozen?
((Adding to the racist theme: I didn’t know Yoko Ono took the bus?))
#4 jbenson2 said,
“Another famous bus movie: Speed
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?”
Well in this movie oil exec planted a bomb that took out the bus’s brakes. No problem because they are going non-stop from New York to Denver. It only becomes a problem when they reach Denver. The self changing tires and built in bus washing system helped.
#12 bobbo said, “Mass Transit =requires= Mass Density.”
Duh. I won’t take the bus if it doesn’t go where I want to go. Case in point: in college the bus system of the town was really good. It would take you everywhere in town you needed to go, except the movies. I took the bus to the mall, to Walmart, to classes, and to the bars. If I wanted to go to the movies, I drove. I really did wish for a bus route to the movies. On the plus side, you can’t get an OWI riding a bus. Therefore, students could drink as much as they wanted.
In every other city I lived in or visited, buses were useless. They didn’t go where you needed to go and never came near where I lived. If I have to drive to get to a bus stop, I am driving the rest of the way there.
Now, if the Grateful Dead used this bus to tour in …
Hey Benji==how come you belittle my most excellent observation and then post nothing but exactly how accurate it is?
You make no sense. You do know the “mass” in density means if YOU don’t want to go somewhere, there are other who do, hence the transit system is well used? “Mass” doesn’t mean the buses go where you want to go==except as summed up and “you” are generic.
Mass Transit =requires= Mass Density. Stupidity is more an individual thing.
I miss the trains in Japan. Tokyo was amazing for rail transport, but even out in the boonies where I taught, the cost to take the local trains down to Sendai was only a little higher than the cost to drive, and I didn’t have to worry about traffic or paying for parking.
I’ve always felt the real benefit of buses and trains is that you end up walking a bit more, something that us North Americans could use more of. (2 1/8 miles today down to the post office and library! Not too bad.)
I remember when this bus was created. A coworker read an automotive report about it that touted the awesome engineering, swimming pool, and nuclear reactor drive. I told him it was impossible. He later admitted being fooled and that it was an April fool’s issue of whatever car magazine he was reading.
Can’t wait for the movie of Buszilla vs Speedy Light Train. I bet Buszilla kicks its butt.
tHERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN 1 problem with buses..
If you have Lots of persons going the same way…you only have SO MANY SEATS..Adding another Bus to a route, WASNT/ISNT possible.
In this scene there is a small group standing in the parking lot. There are standing around the inventor of the bus who has had a heart attack. There are medical personnel standing around but they won’t move or help him because their insurance company prefers that they not actually do anything.
It reminds me of a building project on which I worked. I was going over some plans with the engineer doing electrical and air conditioning system. I told him there was a possibility that the project might be delayed. He laughed and said it didn’t matter to him. The best job from his point of view was a project that was never built. He got to do the work, send the bill and if it was never built there was no liability.
High speed rail is the future… in China and Europe.
In the US it won’t work because it would begin on the coasts. Everyone in the middle of the country has disproportionate political representation and will resist it.
Look at our perpetually bailed out airline industry. Driving a few hundred miles to an actual city is too much indignity for our corn-fed ones.
# 23 ECA:
“..Adding another Bus to a route, WASNT/ISNT possible.”
Sure it is — I’ve seen bus companies do it lots of times, especially at busy holiday times.
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Wish I were on a train right now…
UP,
Thats a PLANED situation..
If the ELKS/EAGLES/… all want a vacation day off…
Check out the Chinese version of SUPER BUS.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=huRlAI5l9oE
They get all the good stuff. 3D Coaches, Mobile Internet Devices, suicide vans.
JCD,
Makes me really want to come to San Francisco and go for a bus ride. AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH. Rats in a cage.
Oh, I rode a bus once- ONCE. The big turn-off factor might be the people you have to share the ride with. Riding in my very private car seems heavenly by comparison.