Very High Speed Bus Transit

In my version of high speed Asphalt Rail, a complex of four cars in an articulated bus configuration will cruise up and down California at 140 MPH. It can do San Jose to LA in under three hours. They have their own asphalt speedway. Speedway buses cost a half million per car. Older asphalt can be refurbished and re-used. Within a few months we could be making trial runs between Fresno and Visalia.

The Very High Speed Bus Transit lanes would merge with the standard BRT lanes at major towns. Using diesel electric and all wheel drive shows nearly equivalent economies of scale to steel rail. Bus asphalt speedways cost minimum 2 million a mile to recover. So using old but under utilized roadways, costs drop.

In my area, the Fresno/Visalia metropolitan region, a speedway system could move a worker from Fresno to a Visalia job site in less than an hour, and save $75/day, payable to the worker. It would be built along the old 99 freeway, causing those businesses to update. We would use forward looking, stationary and mobile vision, add cross bars and warning lights, add digital lighting assist, and move on to certifying freight for the speedway.