I recently visited Bogot\u00e1. Besides being affected by the height for the duration of my stay, I was struck by a few things, like the high amount of trees, dogs, and bikes (which I don’t get to enjoy back home).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing that struck the hardest, though, was how comfortable it felt to walk in the city. There were sidewalks everywhere, there was ample shade, there were many parks \u2014 a very interesting mixed land use of public park and commercial space \u2014 but part of the safety I felt I think was due to traffic lights, so I paid attention to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Red means red. Turning right on red is forbidden by default, and there was a dedicated “turn right” light which changed independently of the “go forward” light \u2014 I’d never seen this anywhere else I’ve been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The timing for the lights was nicely tuned, too, with the pedestrian lights having different affordances than vehicle lights: when the green light was on for pedestrians, cars were guaranteed to be stopped, and not starting anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One last thing about traffic lights caught my attention: when the lights were going to turn green for cars, they first turned red and yellow at the same time. I don’t know why this is, but in a city where most cars have manual transmission is a good moment to get the vehicle into gear and start at the right moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bogot\u00e1’s the best city to walk I’ve ever visited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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