TransMilenio opens in Bogotá
Bogotá opened a high-capacity bus rapid transit network on the Curitiba model, at metropolitan scale and with far higher corridor throughput. Its visibility is what carried BRT into planning practice worldwide, and Latin America still accounts for the largest share of global BRT ridership.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Bus rapid transit · technology system · not located
- Urban mass transit · infrastructure · Global · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Global BRTData
Supports the global BRT figures of about 191 cities, roughly 5,900 kilometres of corridor and on the order of 32 million daily passengers, with Latin America carrying the largest regional share. V55 verification basis: retrieved from platform summaries; the database was not queried directly, and other retrieved sources give somewhat different totals for 2024, which is why the figures are given as approximations.
BRT Centre of Excellence, EMBARQ and partners · 2025-05 · Partly verified
Global BRTData platform, brtdata.org, figures as of May 2025
Recorded on Bus rapid transit
- Curitiba opens the first bus rapid transit corridors
- TransMilenio opens in Bogotá
- The Lagos Blue Line carries its first passengers
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