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Colombia’s national authorities have given a green light to a metro system in the capital Bogota, but the future of the project remains uncertain. On September 25, Colombia’s National ...
Colombia's capital is home to 11 million people — and to some of the worst traffic jams in the world. Now Chinese companies are building its first metro line.
The $7.5 billion price tag put on Bogota's planned first metro line has spurred criticism as it is double the original expenditure and neither Colombia capital's or national government know how ...
When you're stuck in the traffic, think of Bogotá. One study claims the Colombian capital has the world's worst rush-hour traffic. After more than 80 years of vacillating, Bogotá is getting a metro.
Bogota Metro Line 1 will accommodate 72,000 passengers per hour in each direction. It will connect Bosa depot and 72nd Street. The MRT system will have an initial capacity of 656,000 passengers per ...
In addition, it was confirmed that 11 stations will be built along the route of the second metro line, which is expected to start operating in 2030 with 23 trains (six cars each), mobilizing some ...
Colombia's capital is home to 11 million people — and to some of the worst traffic jams in the world. Now Chinese companies are building its first metro line.
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 ...
It's almost unthinkable: a megacity of 8 million people, plagued by some of the worst traffic on Earth, with no metro system - until 2020. Bogotá’s overdue transit revolution is both a marvel ...
The construction of the first Metro line began in 2021 after Claudia Lopez became the first woman to be elected Bogota’s mayor. A former senator and a vice presidential candidate for the Green ...
He spent 14 months with Xi'an Metro and will now take part in advanced training to prepare for Bogota's metro operations. "My time in China helped me grow not just as an engineer, but as a person ...