GGR345H5 Chapter Notes -Transmilenio, Cycling Infrastructure, Car-Free Movement
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Progressive transport and the poor: bogota"s bold steps forward. The us million bogot spent on bikeways alone from 1999 to 2002 was about half the amount the entire united states spends annually on cycling infrastructure. Such outlays might seem out of proportion for a third-world city where half the population lives in poverty. The world bank has been roundly criticized for past investments in pricey metros that predominantly benefit the professional class, and now the bank requires transit projects it funds to meet a poverty alleviation litmus test. Within two years of being proposed, the transmilenio bus-rapid transit (brt) system was up and running, carrying 800,000 daily passengers along a busy 40-kilometer road axis. By mid-2005, the system had expanded to four lines stretching 55 kilometers. Plans call for transmilenio to eventually blanket the city with some 400 kilometers of dedicated busways, serving 5. 5 million passengers per day.
