Buses in Sao Paulo, Brazil 2022

Over 16,000 buses form the bulk of the public transport in São Paulo; including about 290 trolley buses. With the exception of a small network overseen by the EMTU, all bus lines are operated by concessionaires under the supervision of SPTrans, a municipal company responsible for the planning and management of public transport. The SPTrans buses are painted with region-specific colours and carry about 8,8 million people daily. Until 2003, informal transport vans had a large presence in the city, but the vast majority are now registered with the city council, legalised, and now operate under the same colour scheme used in the main system. To increase efficiency in the city, São Paulo implemented in 2007 a bus rapid transit system called the Expresso Tiradentes.[3] There is also a 632 km (393 mi) long system of reserved bus lanes, which are placed on large avenues and connected with the subway or suburban railway stations. ~Wikipedia
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[@AMV12S]

The bus colors means which direction in the city it goes: Grey = Downtown Light green = North-west Orange = West Wine = South-west Light blue = South Dark green = South-east Red = East Yellow = North-east Dark blue = North I think this is a good system if you want to go to a direction but don't know exactly which bus you need to take.

[@Fan652w]

Thank you Timothy for another very interesting video. One striking feature of most (if not all) of the larger buses is that they have doors on both sides of the vehicle! That sort of arrangement is almost unknown in European cities. The only example I can think of was Essen in Germany which used to have a few trolleybuses with doors on both sides.

[@erichumphreys6656]

It’s for dedicated bus lanes which have stops

[@nancyleal2529]

It's because in São Paulo there are special bus lanes and also stops in the middle (islands) of some avenues and so they can open in both sides. If they have to stop on the right, they open the right doors and if the have to stop in the middle of an avenue, they open the left ones. But this doesn't exist in other big cities, maybe except the ones with trams.

[@Fan652w]

@@nancyleal2529 Thanks! The left-hand doors in Essen were so that the trolleybuses coul used 'island platforms' used by trams with doors on both sides. al

[@nancyleal2529]

@@Fan652w, do you live in Germany? I noticed many trams in some European countries. In giant cities like São Paulo these types of buses help a lot.

[@Fan652w]

@@nancyleal2529 No. I am British, resident in Nottingham, one of the few British cities to have reintroduced trams. Almost every large French city has reintroduced trams. In Germany (and Austria and Switzerland and most of Eastern Europe) most large cities never scrapped trams. Tramways which have existed for over a hundred years have been gradually modernised. We do have a FEW' Bus Rapid Transit systems in Britain, but they are nothing like as extensive as the systems in Sao Paulo, Bogota or elsewhere in Latin America. British BRT vehicles have doors only on the left-hand-side; remember we drive on the left.

[@AMV12S]

Most of them are Mercedes Benz chassis, Second one are Volkswagen and others are Scania and Volvo. Mercedes Benz is one of the most popular heavy duty brand of buses and medium/semi trucks here in Brazil... 😅

[@olix6728]

Like23, very nice video 👍🖐️ Best regards from Poland 🇵🇱🖐️

[@brunoroberto2714]

7:30 Intermunicipal routes operated by companies of EMTU system. EMTU (Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos) is an organ from São Paulo's State Govern which connect cities from the Metropolitan Area (like routes from São Paulo to Taboão da Serra or from São Paulo to Guarulhos or from Santo André to São Bernardo do Campo, etc.). The all other buses are municipal routes of the Capital. AWESOME! 😍😍😍👏👏👏

[@greghuang2314]

Very interesting how many of their buses have left side doors, which is very unusual in North America. But at the same time, it makes sense, given how widspread BRT is in Brazil.

[@tojapb1915]

Brazil is in South America. The north of South America. and left sided doors are very popular on that continent. It's caused Rapid transit

[@nixcails]

Like the right side doors on Continental coaches from the UK and Ireland which are Right Hand drive to drive on the left and pick up at GB or IRL bus stops but set down pavement side when in Left Hand Drive countries. Brasil and Latin America in general have great experience of proper Bus Rapid Transport. As opposed to the weak efforts of bus priority here. Beal Feirste/Belfast could have had a better system than the 'Glider' which is basically just an articulated bus with a fancy livery.

[@mtanyctrainatlantamartatra7164]

Some transit systems in the USA have doors on both sides, not to many bus systems in the USA have them

[@nixcails]

@@mtanyctrainatlantamartatra7164 most rail systems have bidirectional doors surely as they terminate an return rather than turn around loops.

[@Biulevert]

@@tojapb1915 desde quando o Brasil ta no norte da america do sul???? ele ta no leste bixo burro, norte é a venezuela, guiana, suriname e frança

[@carlobenedicti]

Thank You so much, always new perspectives on local transit solutions.

[@vitolucasmartins4966]

Thanks Tim to shows buses in my country, you gained a new subscriber😊

[@brunoroberto2714]

AWESOME vídeo, Tim! Thanks so much!

[@Hardtransport]

good video, it`s incredible the quantity of Caio buses there on Sao Paulo jojojo, practically in your video there are only Caio Millenium IV and his BRT version, the Caio Apache VIP 3 and 4. The only "different" ones are the Busscar El Buss 340 at 5:20 and the Caio Mondego at the next sequence of your video

[@porp1459]

its funny that you know all these models since caio and busscar are brazilian companies, which country are you from?

[@Hardtransport]

@@porp1459 i'm from Chile, here there's a lot of variety of brazilian buses, practically since the 80's the brazilian buses are in mostly of various urban, interurban, rural and private/charter bus companies

[@josemessiasrosa8856]

Awesome! My city! 👍🏿👏🏿

[@vitolucasmartins4966]

Tim, you made videos of the public transport of the other Brazilian cities!? Have you been to other Brazilian cities or you have been only in São Paulo!?

[@timosha21]

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[@-ufacity2024newsblog]

в россии это называется гармошка :) . у нас икарусы такие были. я катался на таких в 90-х и 000-х годах

[@scottyerkes1867]

Interesting array of buses. Thanks Tim😀💚

[@luclasaw]

Beautiful buses but the streets are dirty

[@-ufacity2024newsblog]

6 :47 утра ??:)

[@brunoroberto2714]

😍😍😍

[@nixcails]

When did Sao Paulo get did of their double deckers? Would 'Paulistas' want them back like the MX Brt in Mexico City?

[@historiador6]

1993 went out of circulation there is no framework for it!

[@vitolucasmartins4966]

In Brazil and rest of the south America and the world the double decker buses is more common like a coaches(road intercity buses) and city tour buses than the Urban buses which is more usual in the UK, Ireland & other countries and territories with a strong British influence But the double decker buses is very popular also in Berlin capital of Germany

[@nixcails]

@@vitolucasmartins4966 the reason I asked was Sao Paulo did have some Double Decker city buses (same as Portugal in the mid 1970's) and wondered if they would get a fresh fleet like parts of the USA and Mexico City's MX bus rapid transit system.

[@williamthierry5976]

​@@nixcailsÔnibus se dois andares no Brasil só é comum nos ônibus se turismo que vão para cidades distantes e viagens entre estados.

[@moisesmolinas2897]

Cuando por Paraguay

[@PhoenixAviation006]

Come to Mumbai

[@KDchannel_Kus]

Long buses