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Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend by hagbard_c on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:22PM (#50109705)
How about articulated double-decker buses? The one does not need to exclude the other after all. It'd need a large harmonica to deal with hills and bumps or it could have separated top floors with sloping roofs.
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Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend by andrewshadura on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:30PM (#50110601)
How about double-articulated double-deckers?
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Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend by imtringued on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:54AM (#50115440)
Now I want an articulated double decker trolley bus with an articulated double decker trailer.
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Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend by bell-cot on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:13PM (#50110325)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplan_Jumbocruiser

> need a large harmonica to deal

I'd guess you mean "large accordion". Either way, the size & complexity of that joint section may be why the idea never went anywhere.

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