Mobility affected in Bogota due to protests at the National University and Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

The Mobility Secretariat of Bogota reported blockages on Avenida El Dorado near the National University, in the name of hooded men who would protest against certain internal policies of the educational entity.

Although specific details about the reason for the protests are not known, the district sent coexistence officials to allow vehicles to pass and avoid public order issues.

In the Cundinamarca University College, located on Carrera 5 with Calle 28, there were also protests. Authorities confirmed that a group of 120 students took to the streets to demonstrate, affecting the dual carriageway of this main road in central Bogotá.

On El Dorado Avenue, approximately 250 people affected the mixed and exclusive roadway of TransMilenio, a situation that was quickly controlled by the authorities of Bogotá in collaboration with those responsible for coexistence.

The public transport system of the Colombian capital has indicated that due to the protests in the second educational establishment, the Ciudad Universitaria and Recinto Ferial stations in the east-west direction are blocked. The temporary measure the company had to take was to use the counterflow from the fairgrounds to the Ciudad Universitaria.

Through its Twitter account, the public transport system indicated that it has already been recovered mobility on the El Dorado trunk, “mobilization disperses on Calle 26 with Carrera 45 and traffic is picked up by the exclusive route in both directions on the Calle 26 trunk”, Transmilenio reported.

Although mobility issues were resolved on 26th Street, the hooded men decided to breach one of the state highway entrances, it was reported. ash turnstiles entrance to higher education institution.

There Metropolitan Police of Bogota provided details of the incidents at one of the entrances to the National University, “they stopped at the door on Calle 44 A (entrance to the newspaper library). There, inside, the tourniquets have been removedthey took one out on the road and cremated it,” authorities said.

Regarding the demonstrations at the Colegio Mayor of Cundinamarca, in the race 5 with street 30, “students closed the road, 10 hooded men threw blunt and incendiary objects. A water tank and personnel from the Metropolitan Police of Bogota and the Dialogue and Law Enforcement Unit Group“, assured the Police.

In view of the acts of vandalism presented at the National University, the directors of the educational institution announced the cancellation of all activities, in addition, the people who were still in the university premises were expelled because, around 5:30 in the afternoon, acts of vandalism by the hooded men continued to be recorded.

Although the TransMilenio Causeway has been cleared for daily operation of bi-articulated vehicles, some protesters continue to block 26th Street, which has affected motor vehicle users. The Bogota Mobility Secretariat recommended use alternate routes.

“‘Gerencia En Vía’ suggests taking Av. Américas to the west, Carrera 36 to the north, Av. Esperanza to the west, Carrera 40 to the north and Calle 26 to the west, as alternative routes”, the entity of the District of Bogotá declared a few minutes earlier that the so-called peak hour in capital. This is to avoid traffic jams in this area.

The protests in the two public universities are gradually mitigated by the work of the Bogotá police and the intervention of those responsible for coexistence.