One of London’s most famous icons got retired in 2005 to international dismay—the Routemaster bus. Seen on the roads since 1956, they were replaced by bendy-buses that almost everyone despises. Until now! Meet the new Routemaster.
I regularly pull extra-hard on bus handles, quietly flexing my biceps (and triceps, if possible), sneaking in a small workout on my way across town. Designer Junjie Zhang has dreamed up a way to generate power from doing just that.
South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park.
Glasgow’s Dutch-built “amfibus” resumed testing today after being grounded for an unnecessarily deployed airbag. From the video on BBC‘s website, it looks just like a big yellow schoolbus, but runs in liquid and allows writers to make water puns.
There isn’t a nationwide ban on texting for regular drivers (yet), but starting today bus drivers and commercial truckers will have to put down the mobile phone and concentrate on the road.
I never, ever thought I’d say this, but I want to move to Adelaide. Not for any practical reason, but for the free Wi-Fi on the Broadband Bus.
By 2013, San Francisco is planning to construct 360 new Municipal bus stops that’ll further the causes of both solar power and blanketed Wi-Fi at the same time.
No, no, that’s not how you do it. You’re supposed to hold your phone up above the steering wheel so you can see traffic with your peripheral vision. Not good. [CNN]
