Getting Around

According to this list, Bogotá is the ninth most densely populated city in the world with approximately 13,500 Bogotános per square kilometer. This puts it well ahead of Tokyo and New York City, which are numbers 50 and 112 respectively. While this measure fails to capture the nuance of temporally and spatially localized densities (like, say, Manhattan between 9 and 5 during the work week), I still think its pretty clear that there are a lot of people everywhere in Bogotá and that this presents this city with a host of serious day-to-day challenges.

Case in point: getting around. This week, I'm going to be doing a series of posts on transportation in Bogotá: buses, bikes, taxis, walking, and the TransMilenio rapid transit system.

Buckle up.