You won't believe this! 8 Seater Mini Van pulled over in China...

Over a decade ago, an acquaintance returning from China described how a Chinese road building crew was using a newly acquired backhoe to improved road building efficiency. The sent the backhoe to the city center, all the workers grabbed whatever they could hold and got hauled to the work site.....then off went the backhoe to get the next batch of workers. Be glad this was a van. I have no idea how many kids fit on a backhoe.

 

And people wonder why mass transit is not working so well in the U.S.
We need more backhoes and vans....

 

Did they break the Guinness book of world record?

 

Not to different to our trains and buses in the UK a ticket does not guaranty you a seat, but it does in Grumpy's taxi.

 

I agree with you. hehe...
Save lots of gas and less carbon dioxide produced. Save 65 cars driving,for here,may be.

 

If school funding doesn't improve, we may have to consider this for busing.

Tom

 

Those pictures remind me of the Chinese name for those vans

Those vans are called "mian bao che" in mainland China. Translates roughly to "loaf of bread van". They got the name because they are shaped like a loaf of bread. Earlier one were even more loaf of bread shaped.

Those kids were stacked in like slices of bread in a bread package.

 

Those Chinese loaf of bread vans have about the same structural integrety as a loaf of bread. Subways, trains and busses are not only far less likely to be involveed in an accident, on average they don't get wadded up when they are in a collision, they usually wad up whatever they hit.

 

At the rate fares are going up on the trains it will soon be cheaper, and they want to build a new line that will take 20minuets off Birmingham to London that Joe Blogs will never be able to afford a ticket.

 

While it looks like a serious event for BBC and PriusChat, was the Chinese enforcement action for being over the limit of 65 kids per van?

 

Even sardines are packed more comfortably in their cans!

 

That's what I call hypermiling!

 

And the look of the faces of those kids for all the attention; we've been doing this for a long time, what all this fuss is about?

 

That's why I moved out to the countryside, three cars in front of me where I live is a traffic jam.

 

My daughter is transported to/from school in a vehicle that seats 66 students. However, it gets a lot worse mileage than the Chinese version. Funny thing is my daughter's bus is never full and she complains if she has to share a seat that the bus is too crowded.

 

School buses in America don't have seat belts except for a couple extra doors I don't think they have any passenger safety devices. Besides in China that's not a van it's the American equivalent of the "short bus" in silver instead of yellow!

In the last decade education funding has risen over 50%, maybe we need to get a handle on spending and costs first?