Buenos Aires Bus System in Numbers

There’s an interesting article in La Nación today (link in Spanish) which gives some of the statistics regarding the Buenos Aires colectivo system, especially concerning the subsidy system which means that the passenger is only paying 32% of the actual ticket cost – the government picks up the rest of the tab to the tune of 7.5 million pesos per day.

There are 90 companies running 135 lines with a total of 9,559 vehicles (an average of 71 per line).

Every day each bus travels an average distance of 207 km and carries 470 passengers – that’s nearly 2,000,000 km travelled and 4.5 million individual journeys every day!

A Buenos Aires bus - drives to the moon 5 times a day