When Bogotá’s newly minted mayor, Antanas Mockus, took office he had a lot of problems. One of which was traffic. In a city of 8 million, where a large majority of the population walk to work and to shops, pedestrian accidents were at an all-time high. True to his somewhat eccentric nature (as a professor, Mockus would sometimes show up in a spandex superhero costume) he replaced the traffic police with mimes… Continue reading