"Straddling bus" to aid traffic – answers

questions

1. How is China’s economy described by the reporter? as booming
2. What is China also ‘home to’? ‘the worst traffic jams on the planet’
3. How long were some drivers stuck recently? 9 days
4. What will the Chinese engineer;s concept do? put an end to Beijing traffic misery
5. How many passengers can the bus carry? 1,400
6. Which words tells us that the bus is much cheaper than building a subway? a fraction of the cost
7. How does the engineer describe his bus? as a ‘low carbon, environmentally protective, high efficiency project’
8. What are the main problems of ordinary buses? air pollution, carbon emissions and low efficiency
9. Which two transport methods are combined here? bus rapid transit and subway
10. How is the bus powered? by electricity supplemented by solar energy
11. How does the bus warn drivers who are driving too close? using radar
12. Who else can be warned using this method? trucks which are too large to pass beneath