{"id":1665,"date":"2006-10-12T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/but_what_would_matthew_modine_have_to_say.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:57:19","slug":"but_what_would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/but_what_would.html","title":{"rendered":"But What Would Matthew Modine Have To Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this sounds useful<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Outside Colombia, Bogot\u00c3\u00a1 is better known for its association with cocaine trafficking than for its traffic congestion.<\/p>\n

For many of the city’s 7 million residents, however, it was the bumper-to-bumper traffic that topped their list of grievances as of 1998, when Enrique Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa was elected mayor. During his three-year tenure, Mr. Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa devised and implemented a comprehensive city bus system that has eased congestion in Colombia’s capital and cut Bogot\u00c3\u00a1nos’ commutes to work by hundreds of hours a year.<\/p>\n

In his keynote address today at a New York transportation conference, Mr. Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa will discuss the overhaul of Bogot\u00c3\u00a1’s mass transit system, and ways traffic could be eased along New York’s car-clogged streets. More than 500 people, including elected officials, mass transit advocates, community activists — and even celebrities such as actor Matthew Modine and the musician Moby — are expected at the day-long conference, hosted by Manhattan’s president, Scott Stringer.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Acknowledging the vast differences between New York and Bogot\u00c3\u00a1, the latter of which is far poorer and has no subway system, Mr. Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa said not all of the recent transportation reforms instituted in his hometown would be applicable here.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now this sounds useful: Outside Colombia, Bogot\u00c3\u00a1 is better known for its association with cocaine trafficking than for its traffic congestion. For many of the city’s 7 million residents, however, it was the bumper-to-bumper traffic that topped their list of grievances as of 1998, when Enrique Pe\u00c3\u00b1alosa was elected mayor. During his three-year tenure, Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,63,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-grandstanding","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}