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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>From colleagues at Alliance for Public Transportation, OKC … way
cool concept. Watch the video after you read the concept as the video voiceover
is in Chinese.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Joseph Mecham
[mailto:jsmecham@cox.net] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> apt_general_membership@okapt.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: Amazing Concept: Chinese Bullet Train<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To The Membership of the APT:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The forwarded message and video is from one of the APT's
members. This is indeed and interesting concept. Please send all comments to
"Kobe" <<a href="mailto:okjmc@sbcglobal.net">okjmc@sbcglobal.net</a>>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Joe Mecham<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>APT Webmaster<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"Kobe"
<<a href="mailto:okjmc@sbcglobal.net">okjmc@sbcglobal.net</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>June
22, 2010 8:14:00 AM CDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To:
</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"Joseph
Mecham" <<a href="mailto:jsmecham@cox.net">jsmecham@cox.net</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject:
Fw: Amazing Concept: Chinese Bullet Train</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Those
interested in public transit should find this article and video exciting.
Perhaps you could see that it gets distributed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kobe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>I
thought this was a brilliant idea!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Watch
the video<u> after</u> you read the following. </span></i><span
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PURE GENIUS- The train that never<br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'> stops
at a station, but picks up and drops off passengers.<br>
Passengers get on and off the bullet train but it does
not stop. No time is wasted. The train is moving all
the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing
and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each
station will waste energy and time.<br>
A mere 5 min stop per station will result in a total loss of
5 min x 30 stations or, 2.5 hours of travel time! The
Chinese are innovative enough to come up with a non-stopping
train. When the train arrives at a station, it will never stops.<br>
The passengers at a station load into to a connector cabin long
before the train arrives at the station. When the train
arrives it just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which
will be moved onto the roof at the front of the train.<br>
While the train is travelling away from the station, the new
passengers will board the train from the connector cabin
mounted on the train's roof. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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fully unloading</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'> all of the passengers, the
connector cabin will be moved to the roof at the back of the
train. Passengers who want to depart at the next station
will board the connector cabin located at the rear. When the train
arrives at the next station, it simply drop<span style='color:#1F497D'>s</span>
the connector cabin at the station, leaving the departing
passengers behind. The offboarding passengers can
disembark at their leisure, while the train moves on.
Simultaneously, a connector cabin, housing onboarding
passengers, is placed on the roof at the front of
the train. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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each station, the train drops off one connector</span><span
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the rear roof, and loads a new connector cabin to
the roof at the front of the train. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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cats is never wasted.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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