{"id":32352,"key":"Transmilenio_Bus_Rapid_Transit","title":"Transmilenio Bus Rapid Transit","latest":{"id":1270780,"timestamp":"2026-09-14T15:21:02Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"The '''Transmilenio Bus Rapid Transit''' of [[Bogota]], the capital city of [[Colombia]], is regarded as a model of capacity, speed and cost efficiency.<ref>[http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=4&newsstoryid=6510 The mayor who put his city on the map with buses], ''University of Sydney News'', 8 March 2011.</ref>\n\nIt is claimed to move 1.3 million Colombians a day, resulted in 7000 fewer buses and reduced bus fuel consumption by 50 percent. It more than halved travel times for many commuters.\n\nIt was championed by Enrique Peñalosa who was the mayor of Bogota at the time. He scrapped plans to build a network of highways in the city and created the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for a fraction of the cost.\n\n== Notes and references ==\n\n<references />\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Carfree]]\n* [[Urban planning]]\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Bus rapid transit]]\n\n{{Add links notice}}\n\n* []\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Bus rapid transit, Public transport\n| sdg = SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities\n| location = Bogota, Colombia\n| coordinates = 4° 39' 10.63\" N, 74° 5' 0.83\" W\n}}\n\n[[Category:Public transport]]"}