Speaking of transit and good planning... Curitiba

There is an excellent article about Curitiba in the current issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Curitiba is where bus rapid transit was invented, along with other sustainable planning initiatives. See "The Road to Curitiba."


Simon Norfolk for The New York Times. A station on Curitiba’s rapid-transit-bus system. Curitiba’s rapid-transit buses can move 36,000 passengers an hour, a cheap alternative to a subway system.