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Aleu 🏳️‍⚧️
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Hi! My name is Aleu (yes, like the movie), I talk about urbanism and transportation in my home country of Brazil, to try bring awarness of what's going on around here. Hope you like what you see!

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Perhaps the one and only thing Google Maps is better than Apple Maps
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 AM
A thing that's basically a standard in Brazil and a few other places is to have a turnstile in the front of the bus, so you pay the fare, the turnstile is unblocked, and you pass.
I think Colombia and some operators in Argentina use that too, the rest is proof of payment
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
It's basically a standard to use single, front door boarding. However, countries like Chile, Peru and Colombia where there are lots of micro buses, they usually have only 1 door, or 2 where you can board and descend in both.
The Guyanas and Suriname use mostly mini vans, so single slide door
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I already gave my answer (thanks for tagging me).
But I answered only about Brazil only. If someone wanna know more, I do in fact know more, not only about Brazil but also a bit about the rest of South America
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
(for Brazil) Single front door boarding on buses is the rule, except in certain cities in terminals where you enter through the rear doors. Manaus and Campos dos Goytacazes use rear door boarding as standard.
Rio and Santos LRTs are all door board, though in Santos you pay at the station
January 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
But the ice threatened the pigs, they just responded accordingly
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Yes and no, only Santos still uses them, but they're temporarily out of service due to the construction of the downtown LRT
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
My hot take on train seats:
Put those heavily ornamented couches in place of regular seats, but in a way that there's no more corridors in the coaches, so we then bring back the old school British coaches separated by compartments and slamming doors
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I wanna know what that is but I'm not sure I can handle the knowledge
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I've recently gotten into an argument on this topic about the Portland Max, and my honest opinion is that, you should replace it as soon as it becomes a challenge to maintain or a inconvenience to use.
Age restrictions don't work well with heavy duty equipment, it all depends on the application
January 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I was trying to figure out what country sat between Ukraine and Georgia that was marked green, until I realized it's the sea
January 8, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Mafersa was primarily a railway manufacturer, which is why their buses were so different.
And yes I love the M-210 design, as well as the replacement model the M-210-S, which I don't think has any survivors
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I knew some of them bcs of OpenBVE, but heck yeah it was much better!
Still, my dear and beloved green loafs, except that one
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 AM
It just keeps getting better
Budapest is the best city in Europe even if it's one of the cities I've never been, I just know that
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 AM
That doesn't even compare to North America
Afaik, the Orion VI is the only one that had this configuration
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I try to storage as much as I can, but I started running out of physical space, now I wonder if it'll be safe as digital
Like I have a small collection of rare transit pictures that are all in the cloud, but o plan on printing them out asap
January 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I think the problem is that, Tren Maya is a overbuilt tourist train, and as such, it has to turn a profit to make sense. Because let's face it, with that alignment, frequencies and prices, it's not intended to serve the local communities
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM