 In some respects it is similar to other Latin American BRT systems such as the Mexico City Metrobús, the Guadalajara Macrobus, the Bogotá Transmilenio, the Guatemala City Transmetro, and the Monterrey Transmetro.León is one of the few cities in Mexico that has a modern, municipally operated bus transit system and utilizes prepaid farecards (known as "Pagobus"), as opposed to the traditional Mexican pesero system of individual bus owner-operators collecting cash fares.The prepaid farecard system was put in place about four years before the "Optibus" system.