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☆ What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses
  + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Michael Kimmelman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The system, a rapid bus network called TransMilenio, rolled out in 2000. Its buses weren’t as big or as fast as trains, but they were up and running in a fraction of the time and at a vastly lower cost. The idea of rapid buses became the rage from Jakarta to Mexico City, and Enrique Peñalosa, the Bogotá mayor who cooked up the idea for TransMilenio, became a globe-trotting celebrity after his term ended. But there was another colorful character whose contributions to TransMilenio I had to leave on the cutting room floor. (He explained the dropping of his pants by citing the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “symbolic violence.”)
Persons: Enrique Peñalosa, George Harrison, Dalai, Peñalosa, —, TransMilenio, Antanas Mockus, Pierre Bourdieu’s Organizations: Grist, Super, Colombia’s National University, mooning Locations: Bogotá, Colombia, New York, Jakarta, Mexico City
☆ Congested Bogota Secures $415 Million IDB Credit for Second Metro Line
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The board of directors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Wednesday approved a $415 million credit line, with an initial disbursement of $50 million, to finance Bogota's second metro line, the Colombian capital's mayor said. The underground Line 2 will connect to the city's west, said Mayor Claudia Lopez, who finishes her term this year after overseeing initial construction on Bogota's long-awaited first metro line. At a price tag of 34.9 trillion Colombian pesos ($8.5 billion), Line 2 is expected to benefit nearly 2.5 million inhabitants and stretch 15.5 kilometers (9.63 miles) connecting 11 stations. Line 1, currently being constructed by Chinese companies Harbor Engineering Company and Xi'an Metro Co., extends 23.9 kilometers overground - despite opposition by President Gustavo Petro, who wanted part of the line to be constructed underground. The metro is considered critical to reducing the chaotic traffic in the capital of more than eight million residents and will complement the existing TransMilenio bus system.
Persons: Claudia Lopez, Lopez, Gustavo Petro, Luis Jaime Acosta, Sandra Maler Organizations: Inter, American Development Bank, Colombian capital's, European Investment Bank, Development Bank of Latin America, Harbor Engineering Company, Xi'an Metro Co Locations: BOGOTA, Colombian, Bogota, Xi'an
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