Lima Sustainable Urban Transport Plan
Core idea
BRT + metro expansion
Why it matters
Reduces congestion with mass transit
Description
A metropolitan transport strategy for Lima and Callao prepared under Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications, combining expansion of the Metropolitano bus rapid transit network with construction of new metro lines, most notably the long-delayed Line 2 crossing the city east to west. The plan sought to knit fragmented bus operations, BRT corridors and rail into an integrated mass-transit system for one of Latin America's largest and most congested metropolitan areas. It framed transport investment as the structuring device for future urban growth along designated corridors.
Significance
The plan belongs to the wave of Latin American transit-led planning that followed the BRT successes of Curitiba and Bogotá, adapting corridor-based thinking to a megacity with weak metropolitan governance. Its slow delivery, particularly of the metro programme, has made Lima a frequently cited case in debates about institutional capacity and the limits of infrastructure-first planning. It nonetheless marked a decisive shift away from the informal, deregulated transit that had dominated the city since the 1990s.
What shaped it
Sources
- https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/1081
- https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1324303/839141695554.pdf