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At the end of September I went down to Bogota Columbia with Clarence Eckerson from Street films, Carla Quintero from Transportation
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Alternatives and actually Ethan Kent from Project for Public Spaces was along for the ride as well! We were taken around by Guilmo
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Penalosa who is the brother of former mayor Enrique Penalosa. He gave us a great tour of all of these incredible urban design innovations
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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
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city's Bus Rapid Transit system which is called Transmilineo.About ten years ago when Enrique Penalose became mayor there was a plan
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on the table to build a network or elevated highways all throughour the city of Bogota it was incredibly expensive than multibillion
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dollar project. Penalosa and his administration looked at this project and said "you know this isn't going to do anything actually
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to solve our traffic congestion problems". Its going to create huge negative environmental impact on the city as a whole. So Penalosa
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decided to scrap that project and instead for a fraction of the cost replace it with what still today is probably the worlds most
