text: In Bogota, Colombia, Colombian officials took a day to have the city completely car free. Many people took buses to work, hiked, biked, or skated, leaving the streets of Bogota eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the third straight year that cars have been banned to try and promote alternative transpotation rather than cars and to try and reduce smog around the city. Two other cities joined the event and participated to try and reduce smog around the smaller cities as well. Some municipal authorities from other countries went to Bogota to see the event and saw how much it helped and are now thinking of doing their own version of the event in their countries.