The World’s Widest Avenue Gets a Transit Makeover

Buenos Aires, Argentina has seen significant changes to its daily life since city buses have been re-routed from narrow historic town streets to a new two-lane, ten-line bus corridor. Individual travel times have been greatly reduced, leaving persons with more time to spend with family and engaged in other activities, thus enhancing quality of life. The 9 de Julio Avenue corridor features 17 stations and accommodates 11 bus lines, circulating 200,000 riders every day. The corridor is part of the larger Sustainable Mobility Plan for the city that includes increased pedestrianization, an extended public bike sharing system, a larger bicycling network, traffic calming and road safety infrastructure.

• Record URL:
  https://go.itdp.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=54888250
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/31056686
• Authors:
  • Rasore, Clara
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 10-12
• Serial:
  • Sustainable Transport
  • Volume: 25
  • Publisher: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
  • ISSN: 1536-2523
  • Serial URL: http://www.itdp.org/ST/index.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Mobility; Sustainable transportation; Transportation corridors
• Geographic Terms: Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01529252
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 2014 9:40AM