Comments on: Bus Rapid Transit: Bogotá

By: Nestor Arboleda

Nestor Arboleda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:01:54 +0000

Is to give an answer to Raquel.
THANKS for your concern; yes the people is in and out of the transmilenio, (and I use the transmilenio from north to south, east to west) (I was there) WALK UNDER THE TUNNEL TO THE EITHER SIDE OF THE ROAD AND ALSO USE A WALKING BRIDGE IN ALUMINUM OVER THE STREET AS SAME TO EITHER SIDE AND PLACE ELEVATORS FOR THE WEEL CHAIRS AND FOR OTHER CITIZEN UNABLE TO WALK DISTANCES. As you can see in the video, the transmilenio run on the middle of the estreet in both sides.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:19:02 +0000

BRT without barrier separation is . . . not BRT. Duh. Furthermore, added urban highway capacity for BRT = Veronic Moss getting more highway lanes in the name of transit. That evil little . . . lobbyist.

By: Streetfilms » Enrique Peñalosa Brings Inspiration to Boston

Streetfilms » Enrique Peñalosa Brings Inspiration to Boston — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:52:44 +0000

[...] Colombia - 82,520PARK(ing) Day San Francisco 2006 - 60,436Summer Streets 2008 (NYC) - 50,952Bus Rapid Transit: Bogotá - 37,220Hal (and Kerri) Grade Your Bike Locking - 36,538Bike vs. Car vs. Transit - 28,421Portland: [...]

By: Streetfilms » Curitiba’s BRT: Inspired Bus Rapid Transit Around the World

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:43:59 +0000

[...] Colombia - 82,509PARK(ing) Day San Francisco 2006 - 60,436Summer Streets 2008 (NYC) - 50,950Bus Rapid Transit: Bogotá - 37,218Hal (and Kerri) Grade Your Bike Locking - 36,528Bike vs. Car vs. Transit - 28,420Portland: [...]

By: Project for Public Spaces » Blog Archive » Transmilenio: From People-Mover to People-Connector

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:28:33 +0000

[...] more background, watch the Streetfilms piece that PPS helped to coordinate on Transmilenio and [...]

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:26:33 +0000

Amazing story!

By: David Davies

David Davies — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:23:10 +0000

Very amazing story!!! I lived in Colombia from 1984-1986. The transportation system was absolutely chaotic. It was a daily risk of your life to try and ride the bus system. Buses would stop in the middle of the street in traffic for passengers to dart into the street and jump on. Drivers would behave like kamakazi pilots racing through traffic. I can imagine that the greatest benefit of this new system is the decrease in traffic fatalities. It was highly common for individuals to die in traffic. You would see buses driving down the street so full that people would be hanging out the door with one foot on and one hand hanging on.

By: Streetsblog » Albany to Consider Bus Lane Enforcement Legislation

Streetsblog » Albany to Consider Bus Lane Enforcement Legislation — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:14:36 +0000

[...] MTA are, for the most part, not creating physically-separated bus lanes as is done in cities like Bogota, Colombia and Paris, France, bus-mounted cameras will be essential to keep lanes clear and make BRT routes [...]

By: Clarence Eckerson, Jr.

Clarence Eckerson, Jr. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:31:41 +0000

I just had to post this which came from our cross-post on YouTube. It might be the funniest comment we have ever gotten. Enjoy:
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Is this Transmilenio a big deal in Colombia? I am English and am currently chasing after a foxy Colombian girl. I got to spend some quality time with her yesterday for the first time and she spent half an hour showing pictures of buses in Bogota. This was probably the most boring half an hour i have ever endured. Is everyone from Bogota like this or is she just a bit dull

By: Raul Medrano

Raul Medrano — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:15:11 +0000

I visited Bogota w/ my family in December of 2006 and the Transmilenio was AWESOME...what a great SOLUTION to public transportation and an opportunity for COLOMBIA to shine around the world...Que verraquera!

By: Sukarno

Sukarno — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:04:32 +0000

I'm currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Our city implement Bus Rapid Transit similiar to the one in the video called Transjakarta Busway.

http://trans.jakarta.go.id/home/index.php

But it has been a complete failure here. Now, the lanes are even smaller than before and barricading has been very dangerous for both motorcyclist and drivers.

Our government is useless. I hope they can come up with something better.

By: Andrew Dawson

Andrew Dawson — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:14:15 +0000

Rails don't really cost that much more in a trunk like system such as this and over time you'll use less energy & money operating it.

By: raquel

raquel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:09:58 +0000

Just one comment: no rails please! Extra expense: not required. Just electrify and they'll be fine!

By: raquel

raquel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:07:37 +0000

Great system. Couple of comments:
> do they have GPS so people know when next bus is coming?
> do these get held up at cross streets or do they have signal priority/
and finally,
> great future project for BOGOTA would be to make those buses trolley buses, ie: string cable overhead and electrify the system!

By: A

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:18:21 +0000

Morgan, that was just it - if they had put in rails they wouldn't have been able to afford such an extensive system. It is about tradeoffs and for the time being, I think they made the right choice

By: morgan

morgan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:54:55 +0000

Very nice system! I would like to see it electrified and put on rails. Then it would be perfect!

By: A

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:52:53 +0000

Congratulations on the vid - I was down in November and am in the process of putting thing similar together (totally independent), but yours is really polished and nice.

The thing that most impresses me about the Bogota BRT model are the stations. Form the rider perspective they really take it from being a bus on a busway to a *transit system*.

By: IanD

IanD — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:56:10 +0000

Well, if they studied "ideas" for 50 years to get to TransMilenio, then NYC should have something on this level in the mid-2040's, right? I'm holding my breath.

Great job, Aaron, Clarence, Carla...and Enrique Peñalosa.

By: Des “intelligences” en partage «

Des “intelligences” en partage « — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:28:33 +0000

[...] et de distribution. La dernière publication de Streetfilms est passionnante : le réseau Transmilenio de Bogota (Colombie) : un réseau de bus ultra-rapides (quelque 40 km/h de moyenne !) transportant [...]

By: Clarence Eckerson, Jr.

Clarence Eckerson, Jr. — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:42:48 +0000

Just a heads up folks...

We've gotten alot of positive feedback and an incredible amount of debate on our cross-posting on Streetsblog if you'd like to check that out (or join in the opinion banter):

http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/01/28/streetfilm-brt-in-bogota/