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Some SITP buses will no longer be blue, a provision of the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá that obliges operators to change the color of new buses with clean technologies.
Vehicles to gas will be yellow and the electric apple green.
In the yards of some dealerships, the new vehicles are being readied and others are in a lot in the south west of Bogotá waiting to be painted in the new colors to go out to shoot.
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Mayor Claudia López confirmed that the change It will be done to highlight the technological leap and to distinguish the less polluting buses.
But he made it clear that not a single peso of Bogota’s taxes will be invested in this purpose.
«Electric buses are marked precisely so that it is known that they have a different level of emissions, fleets are marked by the level of emissions, so that they are distinguished, so that citizens can also make a social control, what we would like is that Those first 420 buses, I think they are, that already come electric, they are left with the emission signaling«, Confirmed Claudia López.
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The order was given in the first half of the year, but The new electric and gas buses with the traditional blue color had already been bought and imported that today would have to be repainted.
The mayor assured that the color change will be the result of an agreement between the private operators of the SITP Y Enel- Codensto.
“If it can be done with a private company, like Enel, then it would be done this year, or if not from February”López warned.
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Changing the color of a new bus costs more than 9 million pesos, operators with recently purchased gas or electric buses are in talks with Transmilenio to allow it to start operating with the blue color and only incorporate yellow or apple green as of next year with the arrival of the new fleet.
