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Bus Rapid Transit: What metropolitan Chicago can learn from Bogota, Columbia

December 9, 2009, Noon to 1 p.m.

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DePaul University, Chaddick Institute; Room 924, 243 S. Wabash

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Join us on Wednesday, December 9 for an exciting Transportation Research Forum- Chicago Chapter brown-bag luncheon, “Bus Rapid Transit: What metropolitan Chicago can learn from Bogota, Columbia.”


Joe DiJohn and Siim Soot of the University of Illinois at Chicago will share insights from their recent visits to Bogota to assist in the planning for an integrated transit system.  The Bogota TransMilenio BRT System is one of the most extensive in the world. What, if any, lessons can be learned from their system?  Along the way, we’ll see fascinating slides about the high-density BRT system, their system of mini-buses, or Collectivos, and a proposed Metro in the Columbian capital.

This page can be found online at http://archive.metroplanning.org/events/event/41

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