Medellin metro culture organization formed in backlash to police treatment of performers
Colombia’s Ministry of Culture created a commission to organize cultural events on the...
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‘Bogota metro would be costly and have little impact’: Urban planning expert
A metro system in Bogota would be costly and would not have a significant impact on the Colombian...
Metro is a “necessity” for Bogota: Santos
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos expressed concern over Bogota’s public transport and...
Medellin metro reopens
Medellin announced on Monday afternoon that the city’s mass transit system was running its...
Medellin’s metro inaugurates new bus routes
The first phase of Metroplus, the articulated bus network of the Metro de Medellin, goes into operation Thursday. Metro de Medellin, the only urban train network in Colombia, inaugurated Line 1 of Metroplus, which has lanes...
World Bank to review Bogota metro proposals
Proposals to extend the planned Bogota metro to the neighborhood of Suba in the northwest of the city are being presented to the World Bank Friday. Interim Mayor Clara Lopez told a press conference Thursday, “The mayor...
Man beaten to death on Medellin Metro
Medellin police have begun investigating the murder of a man on the metro, who died after being severely beaten by multiple people. According to the preliminary media reports, the attack occurred 6PM last Thursday at the...
Transport minister blocking metro: Bogota mayor
The mayor of Bogota, Clara Lopez, accused the minister of transportation of putting “obstacles” in front of the effort to construct a new metro system Tuesday. Lopez said that she was worried about the transportation...
Transportation minister postpones Bogota metro
Development for Bogota’s new metro system is postponed, Colombia’s transportation minister told RCN Radio Tuesday. Minister German Cardona has delayed construction of the metro because he feels that the proposed...
Bogota mayoral candidates agree capital needs metro
All Bogota mayoral candidates agree the capital needs to keep working towards the installation of a metro to fight the congestion of the capital’s traffic, they said in a radio debate Sunday. Candidates Carlos Fernando...
Bogota metro project suspended
Acting Bogota mayor maria Fernando Campo on Wednesday announced the suspension of the capital’s troubled metro project until at least June, but assured that this does not mean the end of the project. In a press conference,...
Celebrating 15 years of Medellin’s metro
Medellin is extremely proud of its metro system, which turns 15 this year – as the first and only metro in Colombia it is a welcome point of distinction for a city sick of its bad reputation, and a tourist attraction in itself....
