By Bruno Bocchini
The public transportation system of the city of São Paulo has lost 30% or almost a third of its passengers in the lastten0 years.
In 2013, the system transported 2.9 billion passengers, a number that fell to 2.04 billion in 2022.
The city's population increased by 3.2% in the same period, from 11.8 billion people to 12.2 billion.
The drop in passenger numbers was sharp during the Covid-19 pandemic, starting in 2020.
However the reduction was already visible in the previous period, from 2013 (2.9 billion passengers carried . . .
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