In order to travel between the accomodation and the architecture school I make 2 interchanges between buses, and the connecting stops are inconveniently 200-300 m apart. Brightly coloured high-raised buses with flashing lights and large information boards (sometimes also with open bonnets) on the front and with clouds of dark smoke on the back, usually arrive quickly and can stop at any point along the route. Front doors revealing steep steps are often open during he movement.
Instead of being assigned numbers buses are identified by plates with stop names (sometimes accompanied by information yelled out by the conductor hanging out of the front door), some buses have route names such as ‘Transurbano’.
Only certain major ‘North-South’ street have public bus routes, and the majority of routes across the long city are operated by private companies.
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