Tragedy occurred at the corner of 106 street and race 54. A building being built there, apparently was not properly doing the excavations, and its foundation is not contemplated that reinforcements had to make relevant to the houses next door. Thus the houses around it ended up, literally, falling apart and sinking into the new work. Although not strictly an issue pertaining to mobility, our central topic in Mobocol, we put it here because somehow affects indirectly.
Upon arrival, several ambulances had arrived, a 3 and 2 others came later, apparently not to meet injured (I hope), but to evacuate several people who were in a house that was slightly affected, as it functions as nursing home. Police cordoned off the area and upon leaving, they were only letting a cameraman and a reporter of Caracol. Also present all the time a fire truck.
remains to be seen what will happen to the Constructure responsible. For now I assume that opens criminal investigation and possibly affected neighbors to sue the builder, or guardianship, and evidently the work will be stalled until the last reason to inquire what caused it. The construction will have to compensate those affected and, I suppose, should have caused irreparable damage will have to pay the price of the house, property and the lot.
Here is a video that I managed to record the events (can be seen even in 720p):
* Solidarity Bikes for the Sahara * XIV Meeting of cyclists
* If you have not used a bike, give supportive use * I refer
information Solidarity Bikes campaign for the Sahara, in case it is of interest.
* What is the Solidarity Bikes campaign? * In collecting unused bikes to be repaired and restored for optimum performance, and then be entregadasa populations with limited material resources. This time will be delivered to the Saharawi refugee camps, along with material parts and tools for maintenance.
* Why send bikes to refugee camps in the Sahara? * Untransporte Cycling is ideal anywhere in the world, but becomes more important in areas where other means of transportation (bus, train or car) do not have infrastructure. The bike is so essential for many families, whose difficulty getting around becomes a serious handicap to everyday life. The the Saharawi refugee camps were located in the most inhospitable desert on the Algerian border, have poor infrastructure and interim population live in harsh conditions, so the bike becomes a necessary good mobility .
* The complaint and solidarity * community International is committing a flagrant injustice to the Saharawi people. After the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by the Moroccan invaders, part of its population over 35 years has been driven from their territory, are living in camps in the Algerian desert. Next in occupied Western Sahara are subject to a regime of terror, deprived of the most basic human rights and are murdered, arrested and tortured to apply pending their legitimate right to self determination. view of this injustice, Recicleta, City of Bicycles Draiga Um, and several neighborhood associations in Zaragoza we support you making this campaign in solidarity with the Saharawi people and to help improve their living conditions.
* The overall objectives of Solidarity Bikes are *: • To promote the solidarity between peoples. • To promote recycling and reuse of resources, compared to the current culture of waste. · claim the use of the bicycle as a mode of sustainable transport and environmentally friendly. · Inform and raise awareness of the injustice to which is subject to the Saharawi people.
* Where to deliver the bike you no longer use? What dates? * can deliver your bike in Recicleta, City of Bikes and the ten local residents' associations in various districts of Zaragoza. * will be collected between February 15 and April 15, 2011 .* / more /: location and hours of collection point in www.recicleta.com \u0026lt; http://www.recicleta.com / >
* Friends of the Saharawi people on bikes will travel Zaragoza solidarity * The campaign is jointly organized by Um Draiga (Friends of the Saharawi people in Aragon), in coordination with the Secretariat of the Polisario Front delivered Youth bikes institutions (schools, health centers) of the Saharawi refugee camps. * Saturday May 28 * convened a protest tour, on bikes recovered by the Zaragoza streets to deliver at the headquarters of Um Draiga
2011 Travel and learn ConBici Castilla la Mancha, Almagro Almansa
Encourage them !!!!!!!! ¡¡¡¡, from 8 to July 16 there will be a tour cyclist on Route of Don Quixote: Classical Theatre Festival, Ruidera, Greenway Alcaraz, Alcala de Júcar, Cueva de la Vieja and Castillo de Almansa.
addition to other entertainment and cultural events that will accompany us.
Information and registration: www.almansaenbici.com. the CibiUAM
DGT publishes catalog of experiences of road safety in Spain, including three projects Camino School
2 In the context of meeting of Cities for Traffic Safety, held in Cordoba, DG Traffic General has submitted a list of good practices on urban road safety. In the same 34 experiments are collected, analyzed in detail. It also offered contact details of persons responsible for them to encourage their dissemination.
addition to driver education projects, the list includes three Road School: made in Aldaia (Valencia) safe pedestrian school routes , Mollet de Valles (Barcelona) The safety of the movement of children and young people to schools and Donostia-San Sebastian school road plans Mobility school.
Transmilenio light by the Seventh, the struggle continues
Here in Mobocol, as is well known , were and are promoters of the initiative The Seventh respected. And we got results. The works originally were scheduled to begin on 26 December last year, but thanks to our action joint and the positive and timely response of the Office, together with some apologies reinforced the mayor used as a winter coat, we defer, at least a few months, the construction of this nonsense.
However, the headache-purportedly Transmilenio light fixture and add underground - is not over. The citizens have not one, but over a hundred stones in the shoe, represented in the form of unfinished works. Do we want another? At least, common sense tells me that virtually nobody wants. That's why, even if we managed to run the timetable of the work a few months, you need to detain indefinitely this new improvisation. Angelica Lozano
, promoter of the initiative and active Green Party leader, says in a very practical reason why we should stop going to keep things as:
The oversight of The Seventh respects presents a list 7 reasons why, at least in the medium term, the trunk is not feasible. To summarize what is in that list, and that each of you reading this share and disseminate our reasons, here's a short version:
1. designs are not ready and would while the breaks are made on the Avenue. Improvisation. 2. For the "portal" of the 7th 100 with no purchased land or drawings of a new bridge or modification. Guaranteed delay. 3. The TM light of the 7th would be a snap subway in 2018, little or no probable case. "False Promises? 4. The SITP may not start in 2011 and still no one knows how useful it would be a light at the 7th TM. Desire. 5. There unfinished 110 works in Bogota, the roads are infartarían with this new work. Mobility null! 6. There Traffic Management Plan or an alternative to the cycle path . More improvisation.
can print the flyer with the 7 well-founded reasons on the website of The Seventh is Respect and feed it to meet neighbors, friends, or rather, everyone you know who live in Bogotá. And additionally can further printing this form to collect signatures from the neighbors, friends, family, etc. and as soon as you can send it to mobocol@gmail.com or laseptimaserespeta@gmail.com . In
This time we propose a new survey, similar to the previous one (whose results are available at the bottom right), where we want to know more exactly do you think each of you on a matter so important as the Transmilenio on Avenida Carrera 7. The question is: Are you according to the TM7 light to complement the metro? can choose from four answers, or if you agree, or preferred the previous design (which is not considered a supplement or enhancement of a meter), or do not agreement, or does not know what to say.
This survey is of great importance because, as joint promoters "The Seventh is Respect" we want to know the perception of the public in this matter.
SamiBonus!
Happily for some other reason for celebration and sadness for a few, this is the last year of the mayor Samuel Moreno Rojas . In Mobocol fanfare celebrating the end of his term and the remainder of the year will come a carousel news, reports, reviews, summaries and special reports on these, his last months Liévano the palace.
is why we have provided a nice countdown to the December 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm, which can be found here or on the right hand column of the blog at any time.
Although the city still has not left the moribund state and epic in which it is, I am forced to reveal the best kept secret in unemployment . With rich experience of life that has been living in a mock city constantly, I dare to draw my own conclusions and make reverse engineering the behavior of the rebel transport business.
Here is the truth about the plan than men at the wheel of cylinder heads in various colors originally had in mind, excuse the rhyme. My guess:
1. never really planned to block the Avenue of the Americas . The first is obvious. Just look at the futility of trying to paralyze the economy and bureaucracy of the city standing on the corridor to puncture tires and stone volleying left and right. Clearly the Americas is the main corridor through which the city will benefit greatly in terms of entry of goods, food and other products. Harm the tiny volume of visitors should be weekday Mundo Aventura and all those who come to work in Kennedy Town and surrounding neighborhoods. Certainly anyone would hate to be affected by this, but I put so truckers gentlemen, whom you need to hear them, the great leaders of our city, obviously do not live in that sector of the city. Hint: look further east. Best to put it in the words of Les Miserables: are reasoning out of the container .
2. The roads were planned to block other . Starting with the infamous Avenida Calle 26 or El Dorado, named by the treasures, or rather, the gems that you can find one in your way. This avenue and connect with it, surely the city would have been infarcted mostly. Its position is strategic, as well as connecting several of the other main roads, is the only pseudo trail passable by entering the city those who are transported by air. Besides the clear intent of the Nule to find El Dorado, the legend ", which justifies the endless breaking ground in search of gems or treasures buried by the previous contractors who worked there, our always smiling mayor, the # bobolitro is anticipated and how they advance. Sami knew for months in what could lead to the chagrin of truckers freight tables and so he prepared what he called a turtle operation annul any possibility of blockades.
3. What some drivers really wanted was participate in a valid Tocancipá Speedway. And if not, someone tells me otherwise, I doubt it, because with several television cameras, especially CityTV, at midnight and from all possible angles, truckers, with shift lever in hand and a brick in the accelerator, management gave a flawless demonstration of full Avenue of the Americas, even policemen and members of ESMAD glued to doors and mirrors. Juan Pablo Montoya and even more of a Bogota taxi they were in diapers. So, truckers, subliminally wanted to convince us with strong arguments that many of them would have a much brighter future as a professional pilots in the pseudo single racetrack is in the department.
can then all, part or all of this is true and / or fit the facts that everyone knew, saw, live and read in the media covering the trucker strike. But I do want to make a warning and that any resemblance to reality can be coincidence. This only are my guesses and a good alternative view to the boring litany of all national and local journalists in front of the cameras and behind the mega-chicken stew that is cooked in makeshift tents, with truck chains (like not have enough already shackled by far ') and among capitals and refreshing rains forced donations of milk and other groceries. Duda
existential Do you think that was Optimus Prime who is confronted with riot police in front of cameras CityTV? For not breaking the glass stopped. Feel free to answer or comment in the comments!
Since January has become a point distribution of vegetables and other organic products in collaboration with the cooperative project Ecosecha gneiss. For more information on the conditions:
To not give so many around the bush, here are nine points and conveyors government agreed for further discussion and agreement during the course of the following months: 1. The draft decree dated 17 January and 11 February 2011 are removed and replaced with the new draft decree arising from the table of dialogue and consultation, which will run until June 15 this year. The new decree will based on the 3489 CONPES October 2007, which should migrate to a regulatory system based on operating costs and state intervention where market failures exist that merit. 2. That occur as a result of this consultation arrangements, the Government will fully maintain unimpaired the provisions and regulations in force on the subject. 3. That the construction of the regulatory mechanism will have extensive dialogue and consultation without any prohibited item through the negotiation tables prepared by the Ministry of Transport with the participation of all members of the chain, with that scenario the only to proceed with such formal consultation until 15 June this year. 4. Under the Andean National Government undertakes to implement the control of the coastal foreign cargo vehicle, applying existing regulations and standards consistent Andes. 5. Be promoted through the Foreign Ministry of Colombia, the operation of Binational commissions that are intended to regulating the transport of heavy loads at international level with representatives from the transport chain to this sector, and representatives of the Oil sector. 6. In the round table be dealt with as regards the fuel policy Diesel. 7. In the round table will also be addressed regarding the model of replacing the fleet to provide permanence, sustainability and democratization of the owners. 8. The Government is committed to immediately implementing the prescription of the subpoenas under the law. The Ministry of Transport, as the authority governing the transport and transit in the National Order, agrees to regulate prescribing conditions for the transit trade of subpoenas in accordance with the provisions of the law. 9. Following the signing of this Agreement is lifted immediately and ending the truck stop at the National This agreement will monitoring and endorsement of the Vice President who in turn act as guarantor of the roundtables. This record is signed by:
For the Government:
Angelino Garzon
Vice President Gutierrez GERMÁN CARDONA Transport Minister
For the Colombian Association of Truck ACC: PEDRO AGUILAR RODRÍGUEZ
President ACC RICARDO SERRANO Virviescas Secretary General of the ACC
Has not expired or month and a half since it began in 2011 and now they're 5 blocks to Transmilenio. The irony, none had to do with the mass transit system in the capital. The saboteurs and protesters took to the stations and trunks of the system as a platform to put their complaints and, in the most absurd times, to simply take hair to citizenship or to own Transmilenio, partially paralyzed or completely only by attracting attention. It is your sole objective. In other words, more colloquial, is mounted to the Transmilenio .
Image taken from ElTiempo.com Are not enough for the police perhaps as images accompanying this text? To put the batteries! According to an opinion column ElTiempo.com past Sunday, there is, first, police sufficient for the number of inhabitants in the city and, second, much less is the strength needed to protect all seasons. The amount is laughable. Of course, anyone would think that it makes sense to increase these numbers and thus mitigate the problem. The problem is simply that the National Police will not devote more efforts to do for now, the capital. It is clear that the famous policy of "democratic security" of the previous government made great Most police officers to combat directly the internal conflict of guerrillas and narco-paramilitarism in the country. Then, very difficult to General Naranjo, even now that he made the impossible task of ensuring the safety of the capital, will diminish the numbers from one side to bring them to Bogotá, basically to stand at the entrance of a station, wait at any time, any individual or group of social misfits (or unemployed), appearing on TV want to show the impotence of the system, its officials and authorities to protect you from situations that have become part of our daily lives. I will young, but I have lived enough in this city to realize that practically live in a town joke. Bogota is not a focus of high corruption, disorder, improvisation and ignorance, no. Bogotá is a constant show of humor, where the leaders, which sadly we choose, we laugh in the face and make our taxes, and overall budget, a joke. A joke, but in any case a joke. What about us do? Oh really, nothing. "Look at the ceiling," up, because if you look at the horizon that we have today thanks to Samuel, we can put to mourn. Transmilenio
became the favorite toy they want to leave in newscasts and newspapers. They do what they want to articulate themselves and us leaves us expensive joke. As the Phase III, the many studies for the Metro, the ruined streets with little or no signs or SITP, we all know that is not the miracle solution to mobility problems. And these clowns are out there free and peaceful, as if they had broken a dish no longer cheap.
The "playfulness" of these characters have cost us, each and every one of the capital city (including themselves!), Millions in losses in addition to buses destroyed and reduced income because of the blockades. Clearly, not know that Transmilenio not generating billions to the district, because in fact not even have earnings, which is normal in other countries where the government subsidizes public transport safely, without tantrum for the money invested in something so essential. And not know that the system itself has problems, adding to that the most recent accident three articulated primarily by the forgetfulness or desire of one of the drivers.
The system has had a number of problems, but I am hundred percent sure that they are nothing compared to the problems that other players have caused public transport to the city. Nothing is as ineffective as our very antiquated system of buses and minibuses owners the streets, fighting for every penny, closing other vehicles, thefts of film scenarios, and to make matters worse, polluting the environment as possible. It is no secret to anyone.
I just want at least anyone reading this, be aware and put on the task of raising awareness to all who can, that Transmilenio should not be a tool that is to take bad advantage, simply because be noticeable to the media and citizens, but must be one of our symbols or at least flag project (complete with trouble now) to continue serving as an example to other cities and abroad, as it has in those over 10 years of operation. The system has changed the face of the city, positively, of course not always, but must continue making efforts to be the focus of development and culture, to provide solutions rather than problems. To finish let this video that shows what many forgot that safely made the city Transmilenio:
So I call them, murderers. Irresponsible individuals, sometimes drunk, confused, crossed, uneducated, unaware of their surroundings and lack of minimum education to get behind the wheel of a car, bus, taxi, truck, tractor-trailer, fleet, whatever. Perhaps someone who meets one or more of these features and also causes a fatal accident, leaving, do not you call me a murderer?
with varying degrees of guilt, with the justification that is, if all of their own irresponsibility, however small, a person simply should not return to play the pedals or steering wheel of a car. Or even a bicycle for the good of society. The drivers, of all denominations, without discrimination, it seems that have already been taken as a sport drive a vehicle as the worst wild traverse between every possible space, almost to scratch by the way, ignore the signs transit, pedestrians, ambulances, others also engage in countless atrocities , there is no other name-for decent drivers who take them for inept, or "low living."
Deaths like this are daily bread in Bogota, where a single life and pain should be worth as much as that of any number of them. But in this society of irrational patterns, where the massacres until we became something that affects us, we simply can not expect the bulk of the people's awareness of how important it is to care for human life, in an area as sensitive as are process of our city and in general, our country.
Many people ended up sounding like a stale speech, a cliché, a scolding or nagging, Antanas Mockus's insistence on proclaiming that "life is sacred," as one of the phrases he used in his presidential campaign. But he did not motivated only by it, nor was his campaign as recently as this sentence, but had done something similar with her when she ordered the Carrot Act during his first term as mayor and also had personal reasons. A close friend had died, not because of some irresponsible driver, but the ongoing violence and rampant in the 80's. Total, at the last two things are forging the same kind of person. The one that takes lives. And in case it prompts me with anger and pain to write this brief reflection, many men and women driving around, rolling on the streets and country roads, removal of opportunity for one person or many, of living. And the classic: Justice has not been and will be hard on them. And they show countless accidents that occur daily across the country. For the sample of a button, or good two. In the case a couple of videos of recent incidents where five people were killed. Which expression so peculiar, right? "Losing" life, like who won cause in some sense.
What should we do then in this country, so do not murderers loose after having ascertained that actually are killers (to the extent that is) and a latent threat to society? Perhaps stiffer penalties, to change the law, right? My opinion is that this is far from instantaneous and magically solve the issue. Mockus did something intangible but totally useful in Bogota society to middle of the last decade of last century. That is what, in my opinion, start a genuine process of change. It is useless to toughen penalties for these murderers on wheels, and do not speak of gunmen on a motorcycle, "if in any case, if so, the streets would be filled even more than irresponsible and drunk with pass in hand making all sorts of violations and crimes, which often come to naught.
Instead, it would be quite useful to the city and the companies that manage public transport (private, ironically), have mechanisms in education, at least graduated from high school to their employees, as is trying to achieve recently in Bogotá. At the same time promote the campaign, as much as possible, education, responsibility and culture in the way, for drivers, as well as awareness to the general public. In our former mayor called him a clown when he wanted to use cards teaching and pampering in the streets to culturizar (not civilize it is paradox here), a city full of people driving demonized and bystanders who did not know almost all the basic rules to get around.
The downside is that, like everything else in the country of the Sacred Heart, we forgot and we gradually returning to the same. That really is a particularity difficult to remove the Colombian in his being, the collective amnesia. Then, if we are not the least intention of promoting a culture change campaigns in favor of unconsciousness and insensitivity exorcise Colombia, if not strengthened and we use from time to time our memory, individual and collective continue in this cycle of impunity and quasi-psychotic with pass.
way: To whom it may concern, journalist happy day!
Population Census 2011: Confirming the worst fears
As noted in a previous blog entry , the daily El Pais , in its edition of February 3, the echoed the novelty of the 2011 edition of Population Census this time based on a survey of 10 of the population.
The justification for this decision, as argued by Antonio Argüeso, deputy general demographic statistics of the INE, is based on "save time and money" to suppress the realization of a universal census siguinedo the classic model of this type of sources and reduce 20,000 to 5,000 census workers hired. At the same time, the census of 2011 aims to take advantage of available administrative records, as tested in 2001 with the municipal population registry. In contrast, states that the census will be exhaustive (!?). buildings
Needless to say, to what was noted in the previous post, fully endorse the words of Professor Margarita Delgado, in the same article states: "Strictly speaking, it is not a census, it ceases to be exhaustive" .
And continuing with the habit, not as usual as a result of force majeure, we achieve the desired frequency to these special Frozen, here's another scene everyday on the streets of the capital. One is going to get used ...
This time driving on Calle 13, down from Caracas, where a truck / tractor-trailer (or whatever) vainly trying turn to get onto the avenue from a side street. Street on which I have no idea how he got previously.
The story boils down to an indigent, who took to the profession these give way to cars in the congested crossings, "to ease traffic," making clear the opposite effect, was put into the task of making the huge vehicle on the road and stopped us, me and everyone who calmly drove through a stretch, which by that time had no congestion. So we spent about 5 to 10 minutes, all those from the street and cars, saw a couple of helpless traffic policemen parked the bike, eating + soda combo pie to $ 1000. I still honestly I can not believe ... The price of the combo.
headstock plate: 889 BLK
On the other hand the driver of the motorized elephant insisted on going to and fro, like a rookie by parking a car is involved. After the arduous joint work between the man at the wheel and the indigent, who was amused to see the situation, we finally other people see the light at the end of the street. All without effort from one of the forwarders, who were only a few meters back. is sad to see the inaction of the authorities is that which has gradually made the traffic and, in general, regulation of mobility in Bogota has become an anarchic work, why people end up taking the law into their own hands, issuing the order to the streets to force. As a fall, as you can. How do we intend to be a "Bogotá without indifference" if here until the police give a damn what happens before your eyes? And never mind that we were going to see as "+ Bogotá" (Bogotá is more), because as is the city right now is more disorder, more improvised, more accidents, more holes, more road closures, in order.
trailer plate: R54548
An act that is not high impact like this, can still easily be the root of many problems of mobility or, rather, is an abundance of evidence and evidence that Bogota is getting used to living in chaos and most are not willing to do much or do their part. Not being the smallest of civic culture, or as the campaign says "intelligence road." Starting with the authorities.
