Well Hackinosa, my belief is that any country worth traveling to should come with its dangers. As a fellow Colombian myself, I have had the chance to visit the country many times, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in seeing the very unique way a country can incorporate rural and urban development within just a few sq kilometers. As for the issue with El TransMilenio, I have a theory on that. The biggest problem in Bogotá right now is its infrastructure. The highways crumble, the bridges fall into disrepair, and the entire road system in the city has a myriad of cracks and potholes. But this is not due to ignorance, or failure to produce adequate funds. In fact, Bogotá has one of the most expensive transportation maintenance budgets in the world. The answer to the dilemma? Too many vehicles. Thousands of cars and motorcycles traverse these roads and streets every single day, and because of the constant restoration on asphalt, there are hundreds of bottlenecks throughout the city at any given time. This creates an overload of traffic along corridors meant only for a fraction of what is in use. That means that the top priorities in the city are the highways and avenues that need roadwork, not to mention the dozens of homes and apartment buildings that need maintenance due to heavy cracking from nearby roads. A metro system of high caliber is sorely needed in Colombia, more specifically in its larger cities. But the truth of the matter is that the transportation system in the country is not the top priority anyway of the government, and so it falls easily into a list of items the country needs, but which it never gets the chance to actually do something about.
