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Originally Posted by freerover
But when people are focused on unproved technology you never get around to building anything.
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Speaking of unproven technologies, I saw this yesterday on twitter and found it interesting enough to read about. A Canadian company is pushing a bus/rail hybrid model. It's a 60' bus chassis that rides on rails but has regular tires as well for going on and off tracks as needed. The rubber tires just sort of sit next to the steel ones and spin without touching the ground when on rails.
Electric propulsion via capacitors re-charged at stops. Presumably they can produce some cost justification of doing this instead of plain BRT but I'm skeptical. I suppose it would be more useful than a streetcar, so maybe there's a place for this somewhere that needs route versatility or has big hills/tight corners. The website doesn't inspire much confidence.
https://municipaltransitsolutions.com/