Bogotá launches its community-led Plazoleta Program

Global Designing Cities Initiative: Bogotá launches its community-led Plazoleta Program: Bogotá recently took another step towards creating safer, sustainable, and more inclusive streets by officially launching the Plazoleta Program which aims to create pedestrian plazas by reclaiming underutilized spaces all over the city.

On May 12, 2018 Enrique Peñalosa, mayor of Bogotá, and Janette Sadik-Khan, head of transportation at Bloomberg Associates and chair of NACTO-GDCI, inaugurated the Plazoleta Gustavo Restrepo in the borough of Rafael Uribe-Uribe. The interim transformation reclaimed an underutilized space that has been being used as an informal parking lot and transformed it into a vibrant new public space that includes new public seating, tables and chairs, planters, and a small bike track for children, where they can learn how to bike and basic traffic safety behaviors.