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Bogota, Colombia—a city of 7 million people—has 22,000 registered buses and 25,000 bus owners, a recipe for mass-transit chaos. São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, has 11,000 buses for 12 million people; Santiago, the capital of Chile, 9,000 buses for 5 million people (Exhibit

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