Metropolitan corridors
Introduction
The complementary corridors are a component of the urban public transportation system of the metropolitan area of Lima, which is made up of the province of Lima and the constitutional province of Callao. They are made up of a network of urban bus lines or services that cover the main avenues of the metropolitan area.
Since the beginning of its implementation in 2014 until today, corridors have made more than 520 million trips. Likewise, it is estimated that operational services mobilize more than 425 thousand users per day.[1].
History
The Complementary Corridors was a part of the Lima and Callao Integrated Transportation System (SIT) "Lima and Callao Integrated Transportation System (SIT)"), organized by Mayor Susana Villarán and the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, to modernize and improve the city's transportation. It was predicted that this would be completed in 3 years.[2] The first corridor that circulated in Lima was the TGA Blue Corridor (Tacna - Garcilaso - Arequipa)[3] at the beginning of August 2014. This meant that the avenues where that corridor circulated belonged exclusively to it, causing the routes that circulated on those roads to be officially diverted or shortened. The first service in circulation was 301, followed by 303 and 302. These buses were from companies that won the tender to operate the route.[4] It began to circulate on a trial basis only on weekends,[5][6][7][8] to verify possible demand on weekdays. During testing, rides were free. These services were very well received by users, who rated the service as superior to traditional transportation routes. The president of Protransporte (an entity of the Municipality of Lima that was in charge of managing the Complementary Corridors), Gustavo Guerra García, assured that feeder routes will be gradually implemented, 19 in total,[9] to satisfy user demand,[10] with feeder service 351 being the first that was confirmed to operate.[11][12] This was never done. Later, it would be confirmed that the remaining corridors will circulate in the same year: the Red, Purple, Yellow and Green. Then the first express service of the Blue corridor was launched.[13] As of September 1, the white march of operations began from Monday to Sunday.[14].
Currently, it is planned to operate all the routes that remain to be tendered, this as a measure to combat informality.[15].