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Close ✕Curitiba
The capital of Paraná state in southern Brazil, and the city where bus rapid transit was invented as a deliberate substitute for a metro the city could not afford.
-25.4, -49.3 · approximate · founded 1693; structural-axis planning from 1965; BRT from 1974
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- is originates in of Bus rapid transit — The first segregated express bus corridors of the type opened in Curitiba in 1974.
- depends on Municipal fiscal capacity — Ridership and service quality on the fifty-year-old corridors track fuel cost, fare policy and the subsidy the city can sustain.
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