Is there public transport running on NYE in Rio de Janeiro?
(A friend asked me to post this)
He will be in Rio de Janeiro on NYE and wants to know if public transport will be running and if so, until how late in the night.
Best Answer
I'm Brazilian and I live in Rio, and I can tell you from first-hand experience. Buses do work on New Year, but if you plan on taking a bus to either go to the most crowded spots, or to leave from them after the fireworks, keep in mind it will be slow. Painfully slow.
Anyone going to Copacabana beach after 5~6pm of Dec. 31 will experience traffic jams and they get more MASSIVE each passing hour and will return to normal only around 6-8am the next morning!
The subway stays open but on a system where your ticket works only within a small time window... That is, you buy a ticket that can be used only, let's say, between 9pm-10pm of Dec 31st. And another that can be used 5am-6am of Jan 1st. And these tickets are sold a few weeks/days before NYE. And there are long, long lines to buy them. And not all subway stations are open on Dec 31 / Jan 1st.
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