Colombia’s capital Bogota presented a completely new plan for a one-line and above-ground metro some 70 years after such mass transit system was first proposed. The mayor and the president on Saturday proposed a completely revised above-ground metro line that goes from the Las Americas terminal in the west of the city over the Avenue Primer de Mayo to the eastern Avenue Caracas.
Bogota has been forced to reduce the distance covered by its nascent first metro lines as a drop in value of Colombia’s currency drastically increased the production cost in pesos. Mayor Gustavo Petro said in October last year that the project would cost 14.5 trillion pesos, or US$7.5 billion according to the currency exchange at the time.
Medellin Mayor Anibal Gaviria on Thursday announced the construction of a third cable car line that will expand the city’s public transport facilities to the northwest of the city.
