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Comment by geezerjay

> Also: this thing being wider gives it about three times the floor area relative to a train, so it would require about thrice the number of doors to get passengers in and out efficiently.

Not exactly. Longer stopping times are enough to get people off and on.

> How do you do that while keeping it structurally safe?

There are no possible structural issues. In fact, building this sort of bus is more trivial than a regular bus, as size and weight constraints aren't nearly as important as regular buses.

parent geezerjay 10 years ago

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