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Mass Transportation System Attractions In Colombia

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Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The sovereign state of Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. Colombia has been inhabited by various indigenous peoples since 12,000 BCE, including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and by ...
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Mass Transportation System Attractions In Colombia

  • 1. Medellin Metrocable Medellin
    Metrocable is a gondola lift system implemented by the City Council of Medellín, Colombia, with the purpose of providing a complementary transportation service to that of Medellín's Metro. It was designed to reach some of the city's informal settlements on the steep hills that mark its topography. It is largely considered to be the first urban cable propelled transit system in South America. There were plans in the city for some decades before its inception for some form of transportation that took account of the difficult topography of the region. These ideas date back to the use of cable-car technology for exporting coffee starting in the 1930s between the city of Manizales, to the south of Medellín, and the Cauca River 2,000 metres below. In its modern incarnation, it was the result ...
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  • 2. Teleferico de Monserrate Bogota
    The Monserrate cableway is a tourist cable car that operates in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, connecting its city center with the mountain of Monserrate.
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  • 3. Metro de Medellin Medellin
    The Medellín Metro is an urban train that crosses the Metropolitan Area of Medellín from North to South and from Centre to West. It first opened for service on 30 November 1995. As one of the first experiences of modern mass transportation in Colombia and the only metro system in the country, the Medellín Metro is a product of the urban planning of the Antioquia department of Colombia. The city of Medellín and its urban complex had a relatively recent industrial development that started in the 1930s. The streetcar at the beginning of the 20th century can be considered as predecessor of the 21st century Medellín Metro. The company known in Spanish as Empresa de Transporte Masivo del Valle de Aburrá - Metro de Medellín Ltda was created on 31 May 1979.
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  • 4. Tranvia de Medellin Medellin
    The Ayacucho Tram is a Translohr tram system that serves the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. It started trial operations on 20 October 2015. The tramline consists of 9 stations with three of those allowing interchanges with the Medellín Metro and the Metrocable systems. The Ayacucho Tram is operated by Medellín Metro and is the only tram in Colombia. Medellín once had a standard steel-wheeled tramway network. It first was opened as a horse tramway and was later converted to electric trams. Routes were built in stages, and the network reached its maximum size in 1945, served by a fleet of 61 tramcars. However, like most cities around the world during the 1950s and 1960s, the tram service was completely abandoned in 1951. In the late 2000, plans ...
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  • 5. Transmilenio Bogota
    TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Av. Caracas and Calle 80. Other lines were added gradually over the next several years, and as of 2012, 12 lines totalling 112 km run throughout the city. It was inspired by Curitiba's Rede Integrada de Transporte . TransMilenio consists of several interconnected BRT lines, with raised floor stations in the center of a main avenue, or troncal. Passengers typically reach the stations via a bridge over the street. Usually four lanes down the center of the street are dedicated to bus traffic. There are express and local buses, the latter stopping at every station to pick up passengers. The outer lanes allow express buses to bypass buses stopped at...
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  • 7. TransCaribe Cartagena
    Transcaribe is a bus rapid transit system which operates in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, and was inaugurated in March 2016. It consists of 16 stations, and centers around a dedicated 10.5 kilometres bus lane along Avenida Pedro de Heredia from the El Portal terminal to the city's old town. For the first two months after it opened, , the system was free to encourage ridership. Transcaribe's 150-passenger articulated buses are powered by compressed natural gas. Unlike Colombia's older BRT systems in Bogotá and Pereira, Transcaribe was designed to offer hybrid service on bus lanes and city streets; this eliminated the need to change buses on routes to Crespo, Bocagrande, and Cartagena's southeastern suburbs.
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  • 8. MIO Cable Cali
    The Masivo Integrado de Occidente , also referred to as MIO, is a bus rapid transit system that serves Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The system is operated through articulated buses which move in dedicated lanes. Approximately 97% of the city's spatial perimeter will be covered by this system, involving nearly 243 kilometers. The MIO will cover approximately 72% of Cali's public transportation needs.The project was set in motion by an investment of US$405 million; with 70% contributed by the Colombian government and the remaining 30% by the municipality of Cali. These resources are destined to finance MIO's infrastructure: construction of trunks, fueling stations, rest stops, the system of stations, pedestrian bridges, terminals, and yards. The articulated buses have a capacity of 160 passen...
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  • 10. Transmetro Barranquilla
    Transmetro, officially, Sistema Integrado de Transporte Masivo de Barranquilla y su Área Metropolitana , is a mass transit system that has operated in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia since April 7, 2010.
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  • 11. Metrolinea Bucaramanga
    Metrolínea is the mass transportation system that operates in Bucaramanga, in the department of Santander, Colombia. It operates green buses and is managed by Tisa, an enterprise that is managed by Dr. Carlos Arenas, a Bucaramangaian engineer. Metroline operates 50 buses, and goes through the most important places of Bucaramanga and Piedecuesta, a nearby town.
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