Mike's Bogota Blog

An every-day traffic jam in Bogotá. 'Three to a car.' A Petro-era plan to require car-pooling was never enforced. This w...

How much would you pay to get out of this mess?A traffic jam on NQS Avenue.  This morning, two groups of foreigners heading towards...

A man sneaks between stalled cars in central Bogotá today. Is there an escape from Bogotá's traffic jams? Gustavo Petro's ad...

Drivers wait, and wait, on a downtown Bogotá street. With a congestion charge, they might be home by now.  Stopped cars block a ...

  A subway train in Santiago, Chile.... This week, the World Bank gave the go-ahead for final studies for a subway line for Bogot...

Nothing movin': A routine traffic jam in La Candelaria. Today's Car-Free Day in Bogotá (a misnomer) is a good time to lo...

Paying every minute: Traffic jams now cost Bogotanos millions in lost time, fuel and pollution.  If there's an urban problem whi...

Nowhere to turn: Gridlock on Carrera 4. You've seen them, often twice a day and much of the time in between, sitting motionless ...

'Cars Asphyxiate the Cities of Latin America' This headline in Sunday's El Tiempo was no news to those of us living in Latin...

Waiting for a solution Bogotá has, for many years, had a policy called Pico y Placa which prohibits vehicles from driving in the city tw...