Metrobus (Buenos Aires)

Buenos Aires Metrobus

Overview
Locale	Buenos Aires
Transit type	Bus Rapid Transit
Number of lines	3
Number of stations	21
Website	Official website Buenos Aires Metrobus
Operation
Began operation	31 May 2011
Operator(s)	Empresa Línea 216 S.A.T and Juan B. Justo S.A.T.C.I.
Technical
System length	12 km (7.5 mi)

Metrobus
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Juan B. Justo Segment  Puente Pacifico Palermo San Martín Line Palermo Station Guatemala Honduras Aguirre Corrientes Corrientes Murillo Honorio Pueyrredon San Martin Donato Alvarez Boyaca Artigas Nazca Concordia Chivilcoy Segurola Carrasco Lope de Vega Cortina Polideportivo Velez Velez Sarfield Sarmiento Line Liniers Station Liniers

Buenos Aires Metrobus is network of dedicated separated lanes and stations for normal buses that serves the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed as a Bus Rapid Transit, it mixes a few bi-articulated buses with conventional buses. The headway is the same as before the implementation of the system, and it lacks the brand of the network in the buses that use it, maintaining their previous branding as common bus lines with their own numbers.

The first segment of the network opened to the public in May 2011, and runs through the entire extension of Juan B. Justo Avenue linking the districts of Liniers and Palermo.^[1][2] This segment consists in 21 stations and has an extension of 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). The second segment of the network opened, in July 24th, 2013, spans the length of the 9 de Julio Avenue, consisting in 17 stations with an extension of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi).

The third segment of the network opened in August 14th, 2013, consisting in 36 stops with an extension of 23 km. This segment runs through important arteries of the southern area of the city, bringing travelers back and forth from the southern train terminal (Constitución) to the outskirts of town (General Paz Avenue). In parts of this segment of the network (along Rabanal Avenue) the bus lines merge with the general traffic and return to the dedicated lane afterwards.

On October 9th, 2013, the Government of the City announced plans for the extension of the network, which will have a total extension of 56 kilometres (35 mi).

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