Colombia’s Ministry of Culture created a commission to organize cultural events on the Medellin metro system after a video showing metro police forcefully ejecting a violinist caused public outcry.
A metro system in Bogota would be costly and would not have a significant impact on the Colombian capital’s notorious traffic problems, according to an urban planning expert.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos expressed concern over Bogota’s public transport and the urgency of installing metro into the capital city this week, at the World Urban Forum 2014.
Medellin announced on Monday afternoon that the city’s mass transit system was running its full course once again, after ten days closure for maintenance.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…