NEW - Mexico - City rolls out new kind of mass transit Commuters
Crowding onto jumbo buses that operate like an above-ground subway
Mexico City, MEX - San Francisco Chronicle -SF,CAL,USA-by Monica Campbell -August 7 2005: -- On a recent evening, rush-hour commuters jammed into a jumbo, modern bus -- Mexico City's new mass-transit experiment... Costing some $30 million, the Metrobus is the gridlocked capital's ambitious plan to streamline traffic, rid streets of smoke-belching buses and entice drivers to ride modern, comfortable buses that ply express lanes... The pilot line, which rolled out in mid-June, makes 36 stops along the congested Avenida Insurgentes, the city's main north-south thoroughfare, which stretches 121/2 miles in each direction. Each of the 80 double-length Volvo buses has a capacity of 160 passengers...
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