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Major Transit Projects Move Forward as Intercity Operator Halts Service After New Shooting

A fast pace of infrastructure work now coexists with a security crisis that forced a bus company to stop operations and prompted a police extortion probe.

Overview

  • Empresa Emmanuel suspended all routes after a new armed attack on Friday that left a driver gravely wounded and prompted an immediate company statement citing safety concerns.
  • Police and forensic teams cordoned the scene, recovered multiple shell casings, and say a suspected extortion network that charges 'cupos' is the leading hypothesis in the recent string of attacks on Emmanuel.
  • Peru’s Línea 2 tunneling passed a key milestone this week when the tuneladora Delia reached Estación Insurgentes, bringing the project to about 83.12 percent completion and keeping the expansion on track.
  • The Autoridad de Transporte Urbano presented a master plan for eight teleférico lines totaling 46.8 km that the agency says would link hillside neighborhoods to metro and bus corridors and serve roughly 950,000 people.
  • Buenos Aires is reconfiguring streets in Caballito from October to accommodate the electric Trambus T1, a 20–22 km corridor planned to cut cross‑city travel by about 35–40 percent and carry roughly 50,000–60,000 passengers a day.