Curitiba: 50 Years of Lessons from the World’s First ‘Bus Rapid Transit’

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By Ariadne dos Santos DaherOct 17, 2024, 12:01 am286 ptsTrending
Fifty years ago, in 1974, Curitiba inaugurated the first 20 kilometers of a pioneering transit system that, over the years, became known as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). At that time, the city had about 600,000 residents (now nearing 1.8 million, with a metropolitan region of 3.8 million), and was one of the…

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