Cuaderno de Colombia: Medellin's Metro System: Mobile but Miserable
Subheading: The difference between Bogota's Transmilenio transport system resignation compared to Medellin's Metro-made rush, and what this could teach us about how transport systems aid or hinder a sense of neoliberal isolation during the daily commute Despite being Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá still doesn’t have its own functioning metro system. One is currently being built, but it’s not set to be complete until 2028 — it's still uncertain whether that’s Colombian time or the more typical Gregorian Calendar. Instead, the city relies on Transmilenio buses which function a bit like a metro, operating on designated lanes rather than tracks, in a city without the appropriate infrastructure. Technically, the Transmilenio is considered one of the fastest ways to traverse this Colombian metropolis — apart from a motorbike willing to make risky manoeuvres between cars and buses driven by people who all seem to have remembered different parts of the Highway Code. However, ev...