China’s road-straddling bus bites the dust

HONG KONG – China’s futuristic elevated bus will soon be a thing of the past. Workers in the northern Chinese city of Qinhuangdao tore out the tracks for the road-straddling vehicle with jackhammers and shovels this week. They’re cleaning up the mess left behind by a project that caught global attention last summer when video emerged of the 26-foot-wide bus cruising over the top of cars during a test run. Billed as a potential answer to China’s crippling traffic problems,