{"id":2996,"date":"2018-02-11T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2018-02-14T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:49:46","slug":"metro-de-medellin-exemplary-endeavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/metro-de-medellin-exemplary-endeavour\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro de Medell\u00edn, exemplary endeavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0recent years, Medell\u00edn has won a number of awards for management and urban planning, culminating in 2016, with the highest honour possible for a city: the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize. This prestigious prize \u2013whose only previous winners are the cities of Suzhou, New York and Bilbao\u2013 is awarded after thorough assessment of specific initiatives to transform urban environments, generating social, economic and environmental benefits that serve as a model for communities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The management of transport in the city of Medell\u00edn has much to do with this success. More than 20 years of \u2018Metro Culture\u2019 have resulted in a significant decrease in inequality and an upsurge in civic spirit and modernity. With its positive and uncompromising policy of social transport, for the past 22 years, Metro de Medell\u00edn has been the torch bearer lighting the way to new paths for this city of 2.5 million inhabitants, which used to be synonymous with danger. Medell\u00edn\u2019s public transport network, which today boasts a metro system, Metrocable, buses and bicycles, and is accessible through a single-ticket system, has managed to unite the city\u2019s districts and pull its people out of the ghettos. It has also helped reduce traffic congestion and noise and pollution levels. What is more, it has become an exemplary urban transport system thanks to the participation of citizens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2995\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2995\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62-reportajes-medellin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62-reportajes-medellin-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62-reportajes-medellin-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62-reportajes-medellin-2-265x147.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">METROCABLE. Over the past 20 years, there has been a noticeable decrease in inequality and an upsurge in civic spirit and modernity. In the image, Line K in the direction of Santo Domingo Savio. \/ PHOTO_ OFFICIAL GUIDE OF MEDELL\u00cdN (FLICKR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an interview with <i>Itransporte<\/i>, Tom\u00e1s Elejalde, the general manager of Metro de Medell\u00edn, tells us that \u201cMetrocable is one of our most innovative projects because, although cable car technology has existed for many years, Medell\u00edn is the first city in the world to use it for medium-capacity public transport and integrate it into a multimodal network like the one operated by Metro de Medell\u00edn.\u201d Elejalde adds that this system was necessary due to the Medell\u00edn metropolitan area\u2019s geographic characteristics and location in a narrow valley whose mountainsides are home to people with limited economic resources. \u201cThanks to the Metrocable lines, the inhabitants of these districts are now able to integrate with the rest of the territory rapidly, economically and safely. We currently have four in commercial operation, one under construction and another one whose construction contract has just been awarded,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2011, Ineco has collaborated with Metro de Medell\u00edn on, among other work, upgrading its fleet, overseeing the design, manufacture, reception and commissioning of its new CAF trains, including onboard signalling equipment (ATC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medell\u00edn was the first city in the world to use cable cars for public transport: we interview Tom\u00e1s Elejalde, the general manager of Metro de Medell\u00edn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581,600,676,578],"tags":[710,101,1600,1601],"coauthors":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}