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Re:The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá by Gualdrapo on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:42PM (#46950032)
Been living here in Bogotá all my life and in all my years of commuting (walking, bus and now almost exclusively cycling) and have never seen one of them.

Though I wish there were more of them. Traffic here (in general terms) is a complete nightmare but it is too civic culture.

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Re:The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá by xyos on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:46PM (#46950095)
This happened 20 years ago, Bogotá was chaotic at that time, no cars stopped at traffic lights
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Re:The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá by mrbluecoat on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:33PM (#46950815)
Really wish I had a time machine to go back to that board room decision and witness the moment when desperation led someone to shout "Let's use mimes!"
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Re:The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá by leephillips on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:20PM (#46950609)
From the article:

‘“The people who designed it understood that in a 7-million-person city like Bogotá, a very small percentage would actually see the mime artists,” says Felipe Cala Buendía, the author of Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America. However, Mockus believed in the power of word of mouth.’

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Re:The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá by christophilus on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:36PM (#46953744)
> mimes … word of mouth

Nice.

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