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Curitiba's buses make more than 21,000 trips a day, traveling more than 275,000 miles. Riders pay the same fare, no matter how far they're traveling. That one fare covers an entire trip in the same direction regardless of number of transfers. For the equivalent of about 60 cents, I could travel a dozen blocks -- one small piece of the integrated metropolitan transit system -- to a restaurant, and for the same price a resident of the city's poorer outlying area can commute many miles on several inbound bus lines to a job in the industrial zone. -
Curitiba's planners designed its public transit system to be economical. Rather than building a new train or subway system and pay exorbitant construction costs, Curitiba's designers worked with existing roadways to create a convenient, comprehensive and affordable bus system.
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