Metro-Medellín 10 years

morphus says on Nov 30, 2005, 15:22:

very true! i remember the old days in New York City when the the subway was filthy. some kids were risking electrocution in the train yards to get their name "up". the world is becoming a better place.

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rocinante says on Nov 30, 2005, 17:31:

Something to be proud of... Plus the mural of Mary at the Floresta station is breathtaking - I snapped a photo this past sunday and have already sketched the canvas.

"World economic indicators point to a democrat winning 2008. It will surely be Obama. Not that the US president actually runs the US." Feb 5, 2008

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zulmita says on Dec 1, 2005, 18:12:

Congratulations!! I have always bein a huge fan of Medellin and his metro, even when there is ppl who says that is not the big deal, but if you take a look to the rest metros in the world, you find out that most of them (if not all) are dusty, or the stations are really nasty, so you have to go to Medellin to see that is true no matter if is in a good or bad neigborhood, is clean, nice and organized.

Again Congratulations!!

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cali373 says on Dec 2, 2005, 06:17:

I rode the Medellin Metro once and it is clean and nice. Even though people from Medallo are proud of it they admit the unfortunate part is that Medellin did not need the Metro at all. Medellin would have benefited some more on spending the money on mostly security or education. Someone got a nice kickback and they cannot blame Pablo Escobar for this one.

Smile if you are a thinker!

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morphus says on Dec 2, 2005, 07:53:

even though Colombia will be paying France for years to come, its great that its there. like Zulmita says, the Medellin Metro is the cleanest in the world.

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tomtom33 says on Dec 3, 2005, 11:51:

It matters not for what public money is spent. Someone else always has a better use for it.

I'm sure that Bush did it.

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webmanco says on Dec 5, 2005, 16:56:

Metro



COLOMBIA

...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ...

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dwmte says on Dec 6, 2005, 08:36:

i can remember the metro... when it was a rusting albatross of infinished projects from bello to envigado. it sat that way for near ten years. finally with a whole lotta help from the germans, it was completed and is, as all know, a wonderful, wellrun, mass transit system.

personally i don't think there was a lot of graff on the project. they just couldn't float any bonds after they started construction and in the early years there was so damn much chaos and murder going on no one was interested. it rusted so bad, i used to think they would have to tear it completely down and start over. apparently not, it got finished and medellin can be proud. it serves the valley very well. ideas that it isn't money well spent are ill conceived and un thoughtout. the options being a taxi from the south to the north, or any level of bus service. thanks, i'll ride the metro.

dw

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morphus says on Dec 6, 2005, 18:01:

help from the Germans? i thought it was the French.

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