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The North–South Trunk Line is a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service that runs from Santa Cândida Transit Center, in northeast Curitiba, to Pinheirinho Transit Center, in south side Curitiba. Two express routes run through this line and it is supplemented by a limited route ("Direct Line") that serves only certain stops. It is part of Curitiba's Rede Integrada de Transporte transportation system. |} ==History== In 1974 the first express route began operations, linking Santa Cândida in north side Curitiba to Generoso Marques Square, in downtown.〔(A História do Transporte Coletivo de Curitiba )〕 A dedicated bus lane was built for this route, with bus stops 400 meters (1/4 mile) apart from each other. Special amenities, such as newsstands, payphones, maps and exclusive bus shelters were introduced to each bus stop.〔 20 buses operated the line when it first opened and they had their own color-scheme, so people would recognize them as being express buses, rather than local. Nowadays, red is still the color for the express buses, the same way it was when they were first introduced.〔 Throughout the years, the line was extended (first to Portão Transit Center and later to Capão Raso and Pinheirinho transit centers) and received upgrades, like articulated buses and "tube-stations". In the early '90s, the first double-articulated buses ("''biarticulados''") were developed in partnership between URBS and Volvo〔 and later started operating on this line. Still in the '90s, a point-to-point route ("Direct Line" or ''"Linha Direta"'') was introduced, with limited stops and serving only its dedicated tube-stations, linking both ends of the line, Santa Cândida in the north and Pinheirinho in the south. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North–South Trunk Line (RIT)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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