Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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Overview - Templatia
Puebla (Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza) is the capital and the largest city by population in Puebla. It has approximately 1,576,000 inhabitants in the city proper as of 2010. The Puebla metropolitan area (Puebla-Tlaxcala) comprised 3,199,530 residents as of the 2020 INEGI census.
Puebla's rapid transit network consists of three bus rapid transit services and a rapid bus service.
RUTA
Opened 2013, RUTA (Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado) consists of three bus rapid transit services and a rapid bus service that serve the city of Puebla, Puebla and the surrounding suburbs.
Line 1 (Línea 1)
Line 1 of RUTA is a bus rapid transit service on an East-West alignment. It runs from Tlaxcalancingo in the west to Chachapa in the east via downtown Puebla, serving 38 stations.
Line 1 was opened in January 2013. Line 1 is operated by the Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado (RUTA).
Line 2 (Línea 2)
Line 2 of RUTA is a bus rapid transit service on a North-South alignment. It runs from Limones in the south to the Diagonales in the north, serving 34 stations of which four are in a single directional loop at the northern end and two of which serve a single direction only.
Line 2 was opened in April 2015. Line 2 is operated by the Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado (RUTA).
Line 3 (Línea 3)
Line 3 of RUTA is a bus rapid transit service on a North-South alignment. It runs from Valsequillo in the south to CAPU and Alpha in the north, serving 30 stations.
Line 3 was opened in November 2018. Through service along Line 2 ended in September 2024, resulting a reroute to Alpha. Line 3 is operated by the Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado (RUTA).
Line 4 (Línea 4)
Line 4 of RUTA is a rapid bus service on a semi-circular alignment. It runs from FINSA in the north to Valsequillo in the southeast along the western portion of the Periférico, serving 16 stations of which 2 are served in a single direction only in addition to several street stops. Further stations in the southeast and east of the city are served by a feeder route, Integradora 2, and are not currently shown on our system map or strip map.
Line 4 was opened in December 2024. Line 4 is operated by the Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado (RUTA).
References & Helpful Links
Official Website for RUTA: Red Urbana de Transporte Articulado
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Asset Notes
Line colors (1-3) originally taken from unofficial map on Wikipedia as of Jan 2020. All line colors currently taken from official Google MyMaps station icons as of July 13, 2025.