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Figure32: The view from cable car line “K” (Comuna 13, 2019)

Figure33: Tourists in Medellin. (Walzer, 2019)

Conclusion

Due to the lack of initiative of the government and investment into the city’s extremities, communities resented the government. However, by investing into the new transport system not only did it begin to provide people with the benefits they had initially moved into the city for, it strengthened confidence in the government. This in turn lead to more trust in the police, something that played a strong part in the reduction of crime. The reduction of crime is also attributed to the increase in further education (Colombia reports, 2019) specifically from lower income classes. The MetroCable is responsible for integrating these poor residents with the economic hub of the region and giving access to jobs, education, and more (Beyond carbon,2012). The overall impacts of the MetroCable have seen slow improvements in the way of employment, while there have been high levels of improvement in crime rate.

The reduction in air pollution promised by the MetroCable company has not materialised to the extent in which it was promised. We see that early improvements have given way to further rise in pollution rates, likely to be as a result of the continual need for residents of the city to travel within their neighbourhoods, in a way in which the cable car does not allow. However, the MetroCable was the first step into educating residents of the increasing levels of pollution by encouraging other more sustainable uses of transport. Despite this the cable car has improved the city in other ways. Isolated areas are now much more integrated into the urban context and no longer suffer from the levels of neglect previously seen. This has added to the infrastructure of the city and even promoted tourism in areas which would have otherwise never seen it.

Conclusion

In conclusion the metrocable has not brought all the benefits that started Medellín’s transformation, it was the urban integral projects and local government investments in public services and social spaces that strengthened the social cohesion in some of the most disregarded areas. By investing in these open plazas, green spaces, play areas and park libraries it rehabilitated the communities of the barrios, because it gave them spaces to come together and grow as a community, resulting in safer, more positive environments.

The MetroCable and PUI’s have redefined resident’s conception of Medellín, of who is recognised and who is not, thus integrating the city in more ways than one, contributing to the growth and improvement of the city, without which would be facing many major challenges.

“The MetroCable has become a symbol for Medellín,” Tomas Elejalde Escobar, general manager of Metro de Medellín, “a symbol of the transformation, of the equity that has been achieved between the different neighbourhoods.” (Galvin. M &Maassen. A, 2019).

Figure34: Future Metro lines (Line “P”) (Bello, 2017)

Figure35: improved street corners through PUI projects. (Blanco, 2009)

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