Smart station BHLS – TAILOR MADE

The Smart BHLS Transoceânica Corridor in Niterói is certainly one of the most advanced urban bus corridors recently implemented in the world.
The 2018 public tender, won by Metalco, was the first in Brazil to require a connected and smart bus corridor, an open platform design with low deck buses designed not only to serve the corridor but also to easily merge into the city bus network.

Niterói is the city to which Oscar Niemeyer (the famous Brazilian architect, master of sculptured concrete structures) devoted most of his last works before he died.
The Transoceanica shelters, benches, litterbins and bike racks were all designed using the latest possibilities of fine moulded concrete, carefully chosen to compose the city’’s urban design landscape.
The Y shaped inclined concrete pillars, the long benches, the patterned backrests, the long orange graphic communication strips on the top of the continuous glass wall, it all conveys a clean, subtle but strong and contemporary identity to the platforms and shelters.