Super design forward buses in Mexico: Irizar ie tram

Merida city in Mexico is creating a new bus rapid transit system ("IE tram system brings to Merida a whole different means of transportation," Yucatan Times, "Yucatan's Electrifying IE-TRAM Project," Mexico Business News), and as part of it, they're using Irizar ie tram bus vehicles, produced by the Irizar company in Turkey, which look more like fixed rail transit vehicles than buses.

While the specifications on the website only show a 40 foot long bus, images also show an extended version in the articulated bus form.

In "Making bus service sexy and more equitable," as a way to position bus service as a high quality servivce, I suggest that cities like Washington should switch to double deck buses, made famous by London, but used in many cities in Europe especially, but also Las Vegas and Ottawa, Ontario.  The Vegas and Ottawa buses are pretty dowdy looking, while Luxembourg puts them to shame.

Flickr photo of The Deuce, Las Vegas, by EYBusman.

The Irizar ie tram is a worthy option as a way to reposition the image of bus transit.

Also see:

-- "Design forward trains and streetcars: Haga-Utsunomiya Light Rail and Brightline (plus bonus)," 2023

-- "Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit," 2018