Gabriel Azevedo: Yes, and it doesn't strain the overall budget; on the contrary, it's an investment that guarantees more education, more access, more integration for those who need it most, involves smart cost management and greater use of modern urban planning policies to secure funding for the system.
Gabriel Azevedo: And allow me to elaborate on that a bit.
You see that Belo Horizonte's metro... it has wasteful land use.
Gabriel Azevedo: When you expand a station, for example Barreiro, but allow the area around the station to remain low-density — that is, low-rise residences — you are wasting land that could, together with the municipality, through approved changes to land use, enable greater density, more people living nearby, and that resource would be reinvested in the transport system itself.
Gabriel Azevedo: That's what happens in Hong Kong; that's what happens anywhere in the world.