FAST LANE - MEXICO - City commuters try life in fast lane
This week, 90 low-pollution Metrobuses began rolling down a dedicated lane
Mexico City, MEX -Christian Science Monitor/USA, by Danna Harman -June 24, 2005: -- Insurgentes, the jampacked boulevard Mexico City's 18 million residents love to hate, cuts through this massive metropolis, north to south, filled with cars spewing smoke, taxis swinging illegal U-turns, and rickety commuter minivans screeching to stops with no discernible rhyme or reason... Confusion, delays, and a feeling of being fumigated has, for as long as most people here can remember, been about as sure a thing here as traditional Posada processions at Christmastime... Until this week, that is, thanks to popular mayor and presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador's latest addition to the city: the Metrobus... Commuters exit at 36 stops along Insurgentes... and the buses could shave 50 minutes off a typical commute...
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