Sunday, September 12, 2004
Curitiba in Mexico
12 September 2004
Memorandum
To: All Urban Planners and Transit Planners
Re: Trip to Curitiba
You are all aware of the great success of Curitiba’s low-cost, high volume rapid bus system. Some of you are even fortunate enough to work in urban areas where the Curitiba experience can be spoken of openly, without fear of professional retribution generated by the railigious fundamentalists who have their priorities mixed up about what should be maximized (ridership, not spending). Despite the large budgets of many transit and planning agencies, it is not always a feasible to justify a trip to Brazil to see Curitiba’s rapid bus system in person. Fortunately, Curitiba is being recreated not far from the United States. The place is Leon, Mexico, only 600 miles from the US border and a two hour, $400 round trip flight from Houston. Leon is Mexico’s sixth largest urban area, with more than 1,000,000 residents. Leon now has a rapid busway system in operation that is in some ways superior to the Curitiba model. A trip to Mexico would probably be less expensive than traveling to the next APTA conference, and it is likely that much more would be learned.
See: www.rentalcartours.net/rac-leon.pdf
Additional new rental cars have been posted for
Guadalajara
Mexico City
Puebla and
Toluca
See: www.rentalcartours.net
Memorandum
To: All Urban Planners and Transit Planners
Re: Trip to Curitiba
You are all aware of the great success of Curitiba’s low-cost, high volume rapid bus system. Some of you are even fortunate enough to work in urban areas where the Curitiba experience can be spoken of openly, without fear of professional retribution generated by the railigious fundamentalists who have their priorities mixed up about what should be maximized (ridership, not spending). Despite the large budgets of many transit and planning agencies, it is not always a feasible to justify a trip to Brazil to see Curitiba’s rapid bus system in person. Fortunately, Curitiba is being recreated not far from the United States. The place is Leon, Mexico, only 600 miles from the US border and a two hour, $400 round trip flight from Houston. Leon is Mexico’s sixth largest urban area, with more than 1,000,000 residents. Leon now has a rapid busway system in operation that is in some ways superior to the Curitiba model. A trip to Mexico would probably be less expensive than traveling to the next APTA conference, and it is likely that much more would be learned.
See: www.rentalcartours.net/rac-leon.pdf
Additional new rental cars have been posted for
Guadalajara
Mexico City
Puebla and
Toluca
See: www.rentalcartours.net
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