[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of September I went down to Bogota Columbia with Clarence Eckerson from Street films, Carla Quintero from Transportation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alternatives and actually Ethan Kent from Project for Public Spaces was along for the ride as well! We were taken around by Guilmo Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Penalosa who is the brother of former mayor Enrique Penalosa. He gave us a great tour of all of these incredible urban design innovations Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the city of Bogota has been working on for the past dozen or so years. It was really impressive we got to take a look at that Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,city's Bus Rapid Transit system which is called Transmilineo.About ten years ago when Enrique Penalose became mayor there was a plan Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the table to build a network or elevated highways all throughour the city of Bogota it was incredibly expensive than multibillion Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dollar project. Penalosa and his administration looked at this project and said "you know this isn't going to do anything actually Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to solve our traffic congestion problems". Its going to create huge negative environmental impact on the city as a whole. So Penalosa Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decided to scrap that project and instead for a fraction of the cost replace it with what still today is probably the worlds most