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The TransMilenio System is a proposal for
change in terms of urban mobility by means of
a bus-based passenger transportation system. It
is founded on two general objectives: improving
citizen´s quality of life, and bettering
the city´s productivity on the grounds of
six main principles: quality, consistency, affordably,
and respect for life, user´s time and human
diversity.
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With the implementation of this System, important
achievements have been possible: reducing traveling
times by 32%, and gas emissions by 40% in the
city air (over 2,109 public-service vehicles were
scrapped); making zones around the trunk roads
(“troncales”) became safer, and decreasing
accident rates by 90% in the corridors where the
system operates.
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Today, citizens in Bogota are showing a positive
change of attitude, reflecting in spontaneous
compliancewith civic rules, thus generating respectful
behavior and friendly coexistence, cooperation,
mutual support and civil commitment. In addition,
a personal sense of belonging with regard to the
System is particularly strong among children as
privileged contemporaneous witnesses of its birth,
and its ongoing growth process in the turn of
the Millenium.
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