• Panama and Columbia
    An example of WiFi for all.
    1Cars drive over receptors and generate power2Unusual brew2A pineapple, mango and passion fruit freeze pop. A local fave.One of many escalatorsAt the favellaMore favellasA stairway -- the escalators are replacing these2King of the Road2View from the gondola3A neo-gothic govt bldgPeroGayo2The Nuns and the Cardinal by Debora ArangoThe gondola system goes from the station, up & over the hill and down the other side

    Metrorail, Gondolas & Escalators

    February 20 in Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    In 1995, two years after the demise of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian govt decided that the way out of the troubles was to invest in the poor people.
    They built a metrorail that connected the far reaches of the city with downtown. They connected the terminal stations with a gondola system that went into the hills. And lastly, they built escalators in the hillsides to replace the long, long staircases to where the poor people lived.
    The result was that the workers be could get to the workplace. We sampled all three modes of transit today and the system works.    Read more