We here at The Gondola Project love the Chinese Tunnel Bus™. It truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
So when this came along, we practically fell out of our seats:
Architect Craig Hodgetts' Chinese Tunnel Bus concept dating from a 1969 edition of New York Magazine. Image via Curbed LA.
Turns out the idea behind the bus was dreamt-up 40 years ago by American architect Craig Hodgetts. And while some of the particulars are different (Craig’s bus floated on a bed of air), the basic concept is virtually identical. According to Dakota Smith of Curbed LA, Mr. Hodgetts is “glad his old idea is getting exposure.”
An image from the original article in New York Magazine. Image via Curbed LA.
40 years later, it's still a death trap.
Read the original New York Magazine article via Google Books here.
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New York Magazine published a step by step guide for how to rob a house?
haha, wonder how that went over.
American Tunnel Bus (TM)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/
This is such a great invesntion, the Chinese are so creative, maybe we’ll see these across more cities if they pull it off
This is such a bad invention and the Chinese didn’t invent it. They just rendered it and made it look even more ridiculous. It will never work in cities, unless all cars and pedestrians are banned from cities first.