Jarrett Walker has a great rant on this topic: http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chinese-straddle-bus-is-back.html http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chines

Jarrett Walker has a great rant on this topic: http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chinese-straddle-bus-is-back.html http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chinese-straddle-bus-is-... "…If your starting point for urban design is that single-occupant cars, despite their extreme inefficiency in using scarce urban space, should be allowed to go anywhere at all, and that the surface plane should be designed solely for their convenience to the exclusion of all other citizens and needs, then this technology makes sense. Remember, the primary cost of transit infrastructure is the cost of keeping transit out of the way of motorists, on the assumption that motorists have the prior claim to absolutely every bit of public space in our cities."