Transportation
Why Mexico City Has Counterflow Bus Lanes
Planners today are rethinking the transit oddity that grew out of car-centric policies from the late ‘70s.
In the late 1970s, car-centric policies in Mexico City led to the construction of wide arterial roads that reduced travel times and alleviated congestion on smaller streets. Such roads also gave way to an oddity of the city’s public transportation system: Buses that run against the flow of traffic.