Transcaribe is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system which operates in the city of

Cartagena, Colombia Cartagena ( ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route ...

, and was inaugurated in March 2016. It consists of 16 stations, and centers around a dedicated

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along Avenida Pedro de Heredia from the El Portal terminal to the city's old town. For the first two months after it opened, (November and December 2015), the system was free to encourage ridership. Transcaribe's 150-passenger

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es are powered by

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. Unlike Colombia's older BRT systems in

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( Transmileno) and Pereira, Transcaribe was designed to offer hybrid service (''pretroncal'') on bus lanes and city streets; this eliminated the need to change buses on routes to Crespo, Bocagrande, and Cartagena's southeastern suburbs.

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* Bus rapid transit in Colombia Cartagena, Colombia 2016 establishments in Colombia 2016 introductions {{Colombia-transport-stub