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Mark Moxon's Travel Writing

Colombia: The Bogotá Transmilenio

The Transmilenio station at Museo del Oro in the city centre
The Transmilenio station at Museo del Oro in the city centre

The Transmilenio is Bogotá's answer to the Medellín Metro, and while it isn't as elegant and efficient as a proper metropolitan railway, it does a pretty good job of shifting people round the capital. Instead of using trains, the Transmilenio runs on buses that have dedicated lanes down the centre of Bogotá's main roads, and most of the time this means that the buses run smoothly (though they still have to stop at traffic lights and can get a bit stuck in particularly heavy traffic, so it isn't perfect).

Iglesia de San Francisco
Iglesia de San Francisco, which is right next to a convenient Transmilenio station