An inventive yet complex straddling bus that captured the nation’s imagination is being scrapped after the project stalled for nearly a year over questions about its feasibility and the developer’s background. The elevated jumbo bus was meant to glide atop tracks while traffic flowed beneath it. The bus and 300 meters (984 feet) of rail track that was installed as a prototype system will be cleared off the streets of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, before the end of the month. The decision to demolish the project in the city 300 kilometers east of Beijing comes as the colossal bus — meant to accommodate over 300 ... (full story)