29 October Referendum

Quick Background
Referendum Text
Some Context
The Bogota Project
Referendum Results
Media Coverage
World Support
Lessons & Next Steps


On 29 October 2000, and after long and careful preparations, the City of Bogotá organized a popular consultation to gain citizen support and a long term legal context for the phased extension of an existing partial ban in private car use during peak hours, which was to extend in increments to provide 100% coverage for all peak hour traffic (six hours/day) by 1 January 2015. Should the people of Bogotá vote favorably on this issue, cars would be banned from using any city street from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. during weekdays.

The second part of the proposed program, which is known as the Bogota Project, requires the parallel development of a massive and far-reaching overhaul of the city's transportation system, to permit those who ilive and work there to have a very high level of access as well as a cleaner, quieter, safer and more just city.

The referendum also included a second proposal about establishing the celebration of a Car Free Day once a year, as of the year 2001, every first Thursday of February in Bogotá. Car circulation would be prohibited on this day from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. This section of the site provides useful background on the referendum, its results and the long term projects and programs behind it.



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