Construction hasn’t even begun and Colombia’s comptroller is already warning Bogota’s metro lost funds due to planning errors and faulty contracts. According to the Comptroller General’s Office, former Mayor Enrique…
Almost immediately after President Ivan Duque announced a Chinese consortium would construct Bogota’s metro system, the comptroller general’s office said it may suspend the project over corruption fears. According to…
A Chinese engineering consortium has been awarded the contract to build a multi-billion dollar metro system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, President Ivan Duque announced Thursday. The Apca Transmimetro consortium was…
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 Political-Economic…
The Bogota Mayor’s Office has approached multilateral banks in an attempt to secure funding for the city’s first metro line, reported El Espectador newspaper. The project is expected to cost around…
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. Mayor Enrique Peñalosa had already thrown years of preparations for an underground metro in the…
Seventy years in the making, the scheduled construction of Bogota’s first metro line has been delayed yet again in the face of financial woes.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday wrote a cheque for $600 million to Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro to begin the construction of the first ever metro system in the…
Bogota has been forced to reduce the distance covered by its first metro line as a drop in value of Colombia’s currency drastically increased the production cost in pesos.