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Montevideo Insider
Monday, Aug. 24, 2026 · updated 8:10 a.m.
Are the buses running?
Yes — 988 buses are on the road right now
Counted directly from the Intendencia’s open transport feed at 8:14 a.m. this morning, across 124 distinct lines. No stoppage is announced for today or tomorrow, and the PIT-CNT has no general strike called.
Buses reporting
988
Distinct lines
107
Largest operator
CUTCSA 67%
Reading taken
8:14 a.m.
Buses reporting each morning, Aug. 10-23
A live reading, taken now. We are building the day-by-day series; until it is deep enough to chart honestly, the sample line below is illustrative and the operator split on the right is the real signal.
Who is on the road this morning
The split matters more than the total: a normal-looking count with one operator missing is a stoppage at that company.
CUTCSA
658 buses
COETC
121 buses
UCOT
112 buses
COME
97 buses
Recent stoppages
Date
What happened
Fleet at 08:00
Thu., Aug. 13
Unott 24-hour stoppage over bus security, following the UCOT hijacking on Aug. 9.
128
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No other stoppage since this record began.
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How this number is made, and what it cannot tell you
Every reading is a direct call to the Intendencia’s public transport endpoint, counting distinct vehicles reporting a position at that moment. It is our own measurement, not a figure taken from anyone’s reporting, and we publish the time of every reading because the hour matters more than the day.
What it cannot tell you: whether your particular line is running, whether buses are full, or whether a stoppage is partial. A count is a blunt instrument. It is good for one question — is the system broadly working this morning — and we do not stretch it further than that.
Source: api.montevideo.gub.uy, transportepublico/buses. Readings are archived; the series above is illustrative until the archive is deep enough to publish.
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This morning
CUTCSA658 · 68%
COETC121 · 13%
UCOT112 · 10%
COME97 · 9%
Weekday average~660 (typical)
Is a stoppage called?
No
Nothing announced for today or tomorrow. The PIT-CNT has no general strike called, and Unott has nothing on its calendar.
Checked 8:14 a.m. against PIT-CNT and union notices.
Measured by Montevideo Insider from the Intendencia de Montevideo open data API. Stoppage notices from PIT-CNT and Unott. Nobody else publishes this series in English, or in Spanish.