Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
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Overview - Barquisimeto
Barquisimeto is the capital of and largest city by population in Lara. It has approximately 1,059,000 inhabitants in the city proper as of 2011. The Barquisimeto metropolitan area comprised 1,291,670 residents as of the 2013 INE census estimate.
Barquisimeto's rapid transit network consists of three disconnected bus rapid transit lines served by four bus rapid transit services and two rapid bus services.
Most of the information we have directly conflicts or comes from different times, with most of it coming from strip maps produced in 2015 that were released to the public while already being internally inconsistent withe regards to stations. We have attempted to provide up to date information here at the MRA, but with the official website dead and no real way to get information on the current state of the network, please take all information on this page with a grain of salt and assume that it is out of date.
Transbarca
Opened 2013, Transbarca bus rapid transit consists of four bus rapid transit services and two rapid bus services that serve the city of Barquisimeto, Lara and the surrounding suburbs.
Line 1 (Línea 1 - Trinitarias)
Transbarca Line 1 is a bus rapid transit service on an East-West alignment. It runs from Estación Central Simón Bolívar in the west to Trinitarias in the east, running in dedicated lanes along Av. Florencio Jiménez, Av. Libertador, and Av. Venezuela, serving 22 stations and 5 stops.
Line 1 was opened in September 2013. Line 1 is operated by Transbarca.
Line 2 (Línea 2 - Rectorado UCLA)
Transbarca Line 2 is a bus rapid transit service on an East-West alignment. It runs from Estación Central Simón Bolívar in the west to Rectorado UCLA in the east, running in dedicated lanes along Av. Florencio Jiménez, Av. Libertador, and Av. 20, serving 20 stations and 7 stops.
Line 2 was opened in September 2013. It was cut back to UCLA in 2014, with the eastern portion to Santa Rosa being taken over by Line 3. Line 2 is operated by Transbarca.
Line 3 (Línea 3 - Santa Rosa)
Transbarca Line 3 is a rapid bus service on an East-West alignment. It runs from Variquisimeto in the west to Santa Rosa in the east via Trinitarias, serving 2 stations and 25 stops. It runs on Av. Libertador
Line 3 was opened in 2014. Line 3 is operated by Transbarca.
Line 5 (Línea 5 - Rómulo Gallegos)
Transbarca Line 5 is a bus rapid transit service on an East-West alignment. It runs from Estación Central Simón Bolívar in the west to Libertador in the east, running in dedicated lanes along Av. Florencio Jiménez and Av. Libertador, serving 14 stations. It runs entirely in the dedicated busway also used by Lines 1 and 2 and acts primarily as a supplemental service.
Line 5 was opened sometime in 2014 or 2015. Line 5 is operated by Transbarca.
Line 6 (Línea 6 - Alí Primera)
Transbarca Line 6 is a rapid bus service on a North-South alignment. It runs from Alí Primera in the north to Hospital in the south, making an incomplete loop in the southern portion and serving 8 stations and 30 stops.
Line 6 was opened between 2014 and 2018. Line 6 is operated by Transbarca.
Line 7 (Línea 7 - Zona Industrial)
Transbarca Line 7 is a bus rapid transit service on an East-West alignment. It runs from IFE in the west to Trinitarias in the east, running in dedicated lanes along Av. Venezuela, serving 10 stations and an unknown number of stops.
Line 7 was opened in early (April?) 2018. Line 7 is operated by Transbarca.
References & Helpful Links
Maps
Other Sources
Barquisimeto, Venezuela at BRTDATA.org
Other Websites
External Citations
Asset Notes
Line 1-6 colors taken from notilogia.com's reuploads of the 2015 strip maps. Line 7 uses the Line 201 color since it follows a similar route and no strip map for Line 7 exists.