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A chiva (Spanish for goat) or escalera (Spanish for ladder and stairs) is an artisan rustic bus used in rural Colombia and Ecuador.Chivas are adapted to rural public transport, especially considering the mountainous geography of the Andean region of these countries.
The route of one of them is from El Dorado Airport to the Andino Shopping Center and the other from Altos de Zuque to Paloquemao. Complementary routes began operation on November 1, 2012, special routes on December 1, 2012, and the traditional bus system was formally abolished on September 16, 2016, thus integrating public transport in Bogotá.
The Masivo Integrado de Occidente ('Western Mass Integrated'), also referred to as MIO, is a bus rapid transit system that serves Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The system is operated through articulated buses which move in dedicated lanes. Approximately 97% of the city's spatial perimeter will be covered by this system, involving nearly 243 ...
Despite that, there are local bus operators (privately or state-owned) usually called PATP or ATP (literally passenger auto-transportation enterprise or auto-transportation enterprise) which send their buses to Moscow, St. Petersburg, or neighboring cities. There is no unified database of schedules of such routes, and tickets can be purchased ...
TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and Soacha, a neighbouring city.The system opened to the public in December 2000.
Colombia has well-developed air routes and an estimated total of 984 airports, 100 of which have paved runways, plus two heliports. Of the 74 main airports, 20 can accommodate jet aircraft. Two airports are more than 3,047 meters in length, nine are 2,438–3,047 meters, 39 are 1,524–2,437 meters, 38 are 914–1,523 meters, 12 are shorter ...
It has been suggested that the track routes of the defunct Bogotá Savannah Railway be utilized for the city's new metro system. Currently Bogotá has no rail service and its public transport system relies on the bus rapid transit system TransMilenio. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla began the process of contracting the studies of the metro with ...
Transcaribe's 150-passenger articulated buses are powered by compressed natural gas. [1] Unlike Colombia's older BRT systems in Bogotá ( Transmileno ) and Pereira , Transcaribe was designed to offer hybrid service ( pretroncal ) on bus lanes and city streets; this eliminated the need to change buses on routes to Crespo , Bocagrande , and ...