October 29, 2000 Referendum Results

Referendum Results

Final Results

Local/National Media

Final Results

Proposition 1: Annual Car Free Day
The institution of an annual Car Free Day for the city, building on the award winning 24 February 2000 experience, passed easily with 791,867 votes, well more than twice as many as voted against the measure (329,597).
Proposition 2: Pico y Placa - 2015
Creation of a firm legal framework to support the phased elimination of all peak hour car traffic in the city, buildng in increments on the existing 'Pico y Placa' scheme and to be completed as of 2015: 521,106 votes for (versus 348,713 against).

Results of the 29 October Consultation*

Auunal Car Free Day

Yes	791,867
No	329,597
Blank ballots	131,589
Valid votes cast	1,253,053
Null ballots	14,747
Unmarked ballots	177,291
Total votes cast	1,445,091

Pico y Placa - 2015
Yes    521,106

No    348,713

Blank ballots    146,8552

Valid votes cast    1,016,674

Null ballots 19,327

Unmarked ballots    382,842

Total votes cast   1,418,843
* Source: Registraduría Distrital, 17 Nov. 2000

There was considerable lively discussion of the exact meaning of these totals as you will see from the Media section here.

For the full cycle of on-line results

You can find the cull cycle of on-line results at:

Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá (City Hall)
Registraduria Nacional del Estado Civil

The full Spanish language version of the popular proposal can be found on the Web at http://www.terra.com.co/proyectos/bogotasincarros/, together with additional background material and a spot poll of visitor views. A number of other sites also reported on this, including:

Local/National Media

Virtually all of these media provided some form of coverage of the event. Their general site addresses follow. For a selection of articles and reports, check the Media section here.

El Tiempo. Perhaps the most acitve local newspaper in these matters.
El Espectador, a second local newspaper for other views.
Semana. Weekly news magazine usually offereing good coverage of local events.
La Republica, a financial and business daily .
Dinero. Colombia's leading business magazine.
Cambio. Weekly news magazine.
La Nota. Economic magazine.
RCN. One of Colombia's largest private television and radio networks.
Caracol is a private national television and radio network.
Teleantioquia. Regional Television station.
Radio in Colombia
Colombiana de Televisión S.A. Television programmer.
Radionet. National radio network on AM.
CNN (español)

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