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| A recent advertorial in El Tiempo boasts that some new luxury apartment buildings have ten parking spaces per apartment. Car elevators coming next? |
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| Congested Carrera 30 this afternoon. |
Ten cars per apartment? In the auto-adiccted United States, the average family has only about three cars. Of course, these people are Colombia's one percenters, who possess everything short of Mitt Romney's underground car elevator. Still, for every family with ten cars, there are probably a half dozen with five and 50 with two automobiles.
Already traffic-strangled Bogotá just can't take it! And the city's got to take real measures.
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| No building your way out of a jam: El Tiempo reports that an expensive new overpass hasn't relieved traffic congestion. |
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| 'Share your car.' But give me an incentive to do it. |
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| Not in Bogotá: A car-pool lane in the Washington, D.C. region. By Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours |
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2 comments:
ten parking sports per apartment is probably directed to a special market: those who have several bodyguards, hence several cars for a single trip. Have you seen the motorcade of a Senator or Minister? at least 3 cars and 2 bikes but normally 5 cars and 3 bikes, there you have 8 spots already.
Some buildings in Bogotá have their own lobby for bodyguards. I wonder when are we going to start seeing helicopters instead, like in Rio or Sao Paulo.
Do bodyguards actually park in the same buildings as their protectees? I thot they just hung out in front of the building smoking and ogling women. I don't know. But even if these include three bodyguard cars, seven's still a lot. And, for every 7-car household, there are probably ten 5-car households and 50 3-car households, etc, which are fast overwhelming the city.
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