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Bogotá’s Metro Cars Roll Across Colombia, and a Nation Pulls Over to Watch
['The Latin American Post Staff']
LatinAmerican Post
Mayor Galán urged Colombians on X: “The Bogotá Metro is coming!
Bogotá’s Metro, Galán joked to EFE, is “83 years late”—a quip that carried the ache of truth.
For decades, Bogotá’s “subway” lived only on campaign banners and artist renderings, a ghost line under Avenida Caracas.
In the end, the elevated line held, and construction continued.
Bogotá’s Line 1 will need 30 trains of six cars each, meaning this mountain procession will repeat itself 29 more times before 2026.
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