Cundinamarca · South AmericaOSM land-use zones

Bogotá

A high plateau, TransMilenio instead of a Metro for twenty years, and the Metro finally under construction.

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Existing transit 264 lines · 7512 stops · TransMilenio S.A.

Local bus
Tunal || Mirador del Paraiso 2018

Bus, Streetcar — lines, stops and colours from the operating agency's published GTFS, opening years where the feed or the record gives one. Water and roads: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Overpass extract of the playable core. Detail inset at 0.5 km. 2,415,240 residents in 138 zones, pack 2020.

#Facts, figures, history

Bogotá, as the pack records it.

Population by decade, a sourced metro series scaled to the 2020 pack.
Year	Population
1938	71,643
1950	138,669
1960	279,102
1970	524,353
1980	775,534
1990	1,042,898
2000	1,392,464
2010	1,851,895
2020	2,415,239

The pack's sourced population series runs from 71,643 residents in 1938 to 2,415,239 in 2020.

The zones cover 593 km², about 4,076 residents per km², with 1,111,010 jobs at the workplace.

The pack seeds 1 playable rail/BRT/ferry line, 263 bus lines drawn on the map. Tunal || Mirador del Paraiso opened in 2018.

Difficulty is Punishing.

✓What winning here takes

Six ways to win Bogotá, each set by Bogotá.

There is no score to beat. Each condition is computed from the metro as you inherit it, with the engine's own arithmetic; these are the bars the game will set on day one in Bogotá, in 2025. The blue tick is where the city stands today; the red band is where it has to get to. The run continues after you win.

Transit Capitalheld for a year

1.5%today · published share; the game uses day one

1.5%needed · hold the inherited share, for a year

The region's existing system carries about 1.5% of all trips. The operating rail is in the model; in the game the bar is what that system carries on day one, held for a year.
Roads Unclogged

0%today · relief before you build

10%needed · cut in peak congestion

Against what the region would have without your network, not against the day you started — the region grows, and holding congestion flat through growth is the harder achievement.
Carbon Cut

0ttoday · net tonnes avoided today

48,305tneeded · net tonnes of CO₂ a year

Scaled to this metro's 2,415,240 residents at 0.02 tonnes each — roughly what moving a few percent of the region's driving onto rail saves, after the trains are charged for their own power.
Held the Lineheld for a year

0%today · on time, before a train runs

80%needed · on time · 65% satisfied · a year in surplus

All three at once. The cheapest route to a surplus is cutting the service that produces the other two, so this is the condition that cannot be bought.
Within Reach

0%today · within a walk of your stops

10%needed · of the metro within a kilometre of a stop

The operating rail is already in the model, so coverage does not start at nothing. The bar is a tenth of the metro within a walk, or 60% more than you inherit, whichever is higher.
Ten Minutes Back

0%today · cut so far

10%needed · off the average regional commute

Measured on every resident, including the people who never board a train — a network that takes cars off the road shortens the drive for everyone left on it. The day-one average is the model’s first solve.

Carbon Cut's bar is 0.02 net tonnes a year for each resident, floored at 20,000. Transit Capital, coverage and the commute are taken from the network you inherit: where the pack seeds operating rail, from that system's first solve; where it does not, Transit Capital uses the model's default present-day share (floored at 1% and capped at 6%) and coverage starts from nothing. The gauges' Transit Capital tick is that default either way.

What you are given

Every one of Bogotá's 138 zones arrives with derived numbers attached: resident population from OSM land-use shares of a sourced 2020 metro series, jobs allocated from the land-use mix, and a gravity-model home-to-work matrix. These are not US Census tracts and not LODES commute pairs — the pack says so on its provenance string.

Work trips are a gravity model from those land-use shares, labelled DERIVED, not a census commuting matrix. The streets, water and operating lines are still observed: OpenStreetMap and the agency's published GTFS.

Bogotá's operating rail — 264 lines, 7512 stops — is seeded into the playable network from the agency's published GTFS: the lines run, they cost money to operate, and riders board them. Local bus stays decoration.

What makes it hard

What makes Bogotá hard

Punishing. Spread thin, built for the car, and unforgiving of a line drawn in the wrong place. You are inheriting a system, which means you inherit its shape and its operating cost as well as its riders.

And the decade changes the problem, not the vehicle list. Bogotá in 1960 is a different city from Bogotá in 2025: the pack's sourced population series (UN World Urbanization Prospects and national census) is scaled onto the 2020 zone map, so the rivers and the rail yards stay where they are.

Bogotá is in the full edition. The free game rotates through thirteen metros so you can check the model on a city you know before taking anyone's word about the other sixty-six. The full edition, $25 once, opens all seventy-nine. Buy Mac or Windows direct and an extra 30% — Valve's cut on Steam — goes to pro-urban organisations.

Play Bogotá Full edition

Sources

How the model turns these into riders, with every mechanic named →

Bogotá

Transit Capitalheld for a year

Roads Unclogged

Carbon Cut

Held the Lineheld for a year

Within Reach

Ten Minutes Back

What you are given

What makes Bogotá hard