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Guayaquil
The modern bus terminal
Metrovía station (info@yelagraphics.com)
an innovative management, regulation and operational
control concept operated by the city council. Metrovia
transformed the city’s transportation system into a prof-
itable and secure business for its operating companies,
while offering better quality of life, mobility and acces-
sibility to its users. The project replaces the city’s for-
mer public transportation system with a more rapid and
efficient transit that will have 7 trunk routes. The new
operational control center is geo-referenced and fully
integrated with the electronic fare system in order to
provide real-time control. The first phase of the project
has already attracted impressive passenger traffic and
revenues.
The Metrovia Foundation established by the city is re-
sponsible for overseeing the entire operation. They plan
future lines and ensures that bus system is running
smoothly. Unlike other BRT Systems’ administrative en-
tities, this one is funded entirely from space rental and
other non-fare related income.
The new troncal of integration, called 25 of July, will be
working from the end of 2011 and will transport 320.000
passengers per day.
The gigantic bus terminal was opened in 2007, it has
183 000 m², with 154 outlet stores, 117 islands, a su-
perstore, 91 box offices, 140 buses platforms. In ad-
dition to 15 restrooms, 8 sections of escalators and 3
inside, 6 forklifts, generators, emergency power and
exhaust fumes. The brand new bus station hosts a
total of 91 cooperatives buses. An average of 80
thousand people travel on a daily basis (42 million
people per year).
The Terminal Terrestre Foundation of Guayaquil
serves 23% less people than the biggest bus termi-
nals in the world, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in
New York, 15% less passengers than the Sao Paulo
terminal in Brazil, serving more than 17% of users
the terminal Retiro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, be-
ing one of the most modern bus terminals in Latin
America.