Reporting from Qinhuangdao, China — The contraption straddles half of a four-lane road. Arctic blue and nearly a quarter the length of a football field, the bus-train hybrid looks like a prop built ...

It's not that often that one of those crazy-looking transportation concepts you see on the cover of an old 1950s Popular Mechanics comes true, but I'm delighted to say that's happened. In China, a ...

Our pals over at Car News China have some close-up shots of the bus, the test track, and the test station that were built in Beidaihe, a beach district of the city of Qinghuandao in Hebei Province.

Everyone was in thrall over the recent Chinese test drive of the “straddling bus,” a proposal for a public transport contraption that would operate above roads and allow cars to pass underneath it.

The Hyperloop may help humanity travel great distances at remarkable speeds, but how should we sustainably get from point A to B in congested cities? An innovative public transport design looked like ...

Last summer, a seemingly cool "straddling bus" project in China made headlines. The futuristic thing swooped above traffic on rails at the side and center of the road. Well, after a whole lot of ...

A Beijing-based company Transit Explore Bus is currently building a life-size model of the Straddle bus in Changzhou and they plan to test it in July or August. Different versions will carry up to ...

It looks like an awesome vision of the sci-fi future of public transit. But even though it doesn’t collide with cars, it might collide with reality. A handful of Chinese cities plan to begin testing a ...

Six years ago, a video for a bus that operates above roadways–it’s actually more like a train–raised some curious eyebrows. Some dismissed it as impractical, while other saw it as inexpensive solution ...

You may remember last week when China shocked us all and showed off a straddling bus in working order mere months after introducing the concept. The launch seemed too good to be true, but people were ...

It sounds like an approach you might take in Grand Theft Auto, but China may soon be dealing with its notorious traffic problems simply by driving right over the top of them. A Beijing company is ...

If you start seeing long worm-like vehicles swallowing up cars on Chinese highways, don't be alarmed. The country is just solving its massive traffic problem. These odd-looking vehicles are known as ...