title: The Peñalosa Principle of Transportation Democracy: Lessons from Bogotá on the Morality of Urban Mobility.
abstract: The mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa strives to deliver transit services that promote social equity through bicycle lanes, improved sidewalks, and a world-famous Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, "TransMilenio." Through examining the principles that guide his planning, we can flesh out a starting point for socially just transit systems. While such measures can alleviate several harms that transit systems cause, they rest on an incomplete foundation due to their top-down nature. To amend this situation, the author argues for a restorative justice approach to transportation democracy, using examples from Peñalosa's mayoral tenure. In turn, lessons from Bogotá's transportation history reveal how to develop transit systems that strongly favor justice.
authors.affiliation: Philosophy Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, 89154, USA. shane.epting@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Shane
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1432-1361
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Epting
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003709:Democracy; D006801:Humans; D012935:Social Justice / Q000941:ethics*; D014186:Transportation / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: Enrique Peñalosa; TransMilenio; Transportation democracy; Transportation justice; Urban mobility