installed products:     PA-003 MUP-002 CP-004 BAN-007

Location: Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Project: Government of Jalisco.

Photography: Own archive.

Description: Mi Macro Periférico is a new mass transit system that runs along the peripheral ring which effectively articulates and integrates the mobility of the inhabitants of the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara with the BRT line system.

As part of the project, its scope in the intervention was various: central stations, urban environments, road repairs, etc.

In the case of BKT urban furniture, our contribution was both in the central stations (with the MUPI-002 and signaling) and in urban environments (with the PARABUS-003, double-deck cycle ports). Each of these pieces contributes in a different way to this great mobility project. 

In the case of the MUPI-002, it functions as an informative piece, as a safeguard both for its components and for the information it shares, in addition to being a formally beautiful and timeless piece.

The Bus shelter-003, a backup system capable of adapting to any space, any sidewalk and operating efficiently, has been integrated into urban environments to meet the demands of any feeder route that passes through it, providing its users with the ability to wait in a comfortable, safe and even connected way.

"The Peripheral Ring has its origins with the urbanization of Guadalajara between the 1960s and 1970s. The economic and social development that the city experienced —along with other cities such as Mexico City, Monterrey or Puebla—, meant the population expansion and the settlement of more colonies outside the historic centers."

"Thus, in an attempt to keep the growth of the urban sprawl in order, this interior road was outlined, which also linked suburban towns such as San Juan de Ocotán, Santa Ana Tepetitlán, San Sebastianito, Santa María Tequepexpan or Toluquilla, among others. Around the 1980s, the expansion of the city took place towards the municipality of Tonalá, which led to the construction of the northeastern section of the Peripheral Ring."

"However, by the 1990s and the first of the 21st century, the excessive and disorderly growth of the city absorbed the Periférico as just another avenue, which stripped it of its limiting character. It was during these years, too, that Public transport was incorporated into the circulation of the road, consolidating itself as one of the main interconnection routes, but whose service has been inefficient and exceeded."

Source: https://mimacro.jalisco.gob.mx/

Mobility through el Periférico

177 thousand 330 daily users of public transport making round trips. 354 thousand 660 trips per day in public transport. Currently, there are 17 public transport routes that pass through the avenue.

Live by el Periférico

There are 110 neightborhoods:

28 in Guadalajara.

57 in Zapopan.

17 in Tlaquepaque.

8 in Tonalá.

In these neightborhoods live 568 thousand 086 inhabitants:

332,541 in Zapopan.

122,479 in Guadalajara.

59,947 in Tlaquepaque.

53,119 in Tonalá.