This project emerged as an idea for practicing English in a comfortable, ralaxing and easy way, taking in count the difficulties that English learners have trying to get envolved with it in a Spanish context, and as our field is management and business, what better than talks about the most important economic topics aside the best friend a colombian can have: a cup of coffee.
This way, the first Business Coffee break was organized on febreury 17th with the presence of the organizers: Lilia Mendoza, Delanis Caicedo, Cristina Perez y Carlos Rebolledo.
Around the world, there are an estimated 1 Billion people learning English. There are many reasons why learning English has seen exponential growth in recent years, but it all boils down to the fact that English is the “global language” of business, politics, international relations, culture, and entertainment. Because of this, students and teachers from faculty of management, economic and accounting sciences decided to share knowledge and experiences of the most important business topics in this foreign language, just with a cup of coffee...
The inauguration of the Integrated Mass Transport will today's birthday 197 of the city. During the ceremony, President Alvaro Uribe made the journey in one of the buses. In the first ten buses, parked one after another in the season return of the race 46 with 72nd Street, north of Barranquilla, curious and strange are seriously beginning of operations of the Integrated Mass Transit (Transmetro). And is that everyone who watches recharging Euro IV, the special biofuel use and will be kind to the environment, is stunned after a wait of 6 years, which is the delay that has taken the project to start operations .
Transmetro was conceived in 2000 with support from the Government, at an initial cost of 310,000 million pesos, but ended up by 750,000 million. Yesterday morning, the presence of these white vehicles and arrived from Pereira, caused much commotion among the pedestrians and drivers passing through the area that there was an accident between a bus and a motorcycle because one of the two was distracted and violated the stop sign. The truth is that today, in the presence of President Alvaro Uribe, just as the capital of the Atlantic is celebrating its 197 anniversary of being erected in town, seems to be no more appropriate gift for 'The Arena' to the formal inauguration of Transmetro, although the days This first month will be used to socialize with the community and make a pedagogy on its use.
During that time, no cost transportation, but there will be strict control on staff who ride on buses. "We will spare no effort in the statement. It is our goal that the public know how the Transmetro" said Edgar Paredes, assistant manager of Operation Transmetro. Ten buses will start rolling on 14.9 miles of system length, divided into two trunks, and Olaya Herrera Murillo, the first with 10 stations and the second with 5.
Those who came : Of the vehicles that arrived at night on Monday, 2 articulated buses are 18 meters long, with capacity for 160 passengers (48 seated and 112 standing), while the remaining 8 are called standards, 12 feet high long, with capacity for 80 passengers (24 seated and 56 standing). "For a month we will be on probation. It will look at technical conditions of the city," said Paredes.
The system will have 30 feeder routes, and in all sectors of each will be selling points for the cards that have an initial cost of 3,000 pesos and can be recharged. When Transmetro between firm operating within a month, will have a schedule unchangeable: Start at 5:00 am and make the last tour 11:00 pm. On Sundays and public holidays will run from 6:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m. "It will offer security, comfort and time management," said Paredes. Once the system is operating at its one hundred percent roll 284 buses of which 92 are articulated, 85 patterns and 107 busetones. The vehicles were joined by world-renowned manufacturers such as Scania brand chassis, Busscar in bodies, and Spheros in air conditioners.
"This is a very important moment for Scania, since participation in the Transmetro strengthens our presence in the Colombian market, which began with the TransMilenio in Bogota and Scania as reference positions in projects of BRT (Bus Rapid Transit)," said Mathias Carlbaum, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Scania Latin America. "System operators and Metro Sistur Caribbean, have always given priority to the user, to its security. We responded to this challenge, with body safe, reliable and with the guarantee of comfort for passengers," he said, for his part, Roberto Galvez, president of Busscar de Colombia SA
Today, after President Alvaro Uribe, with the mayor Alejandro Char, Governor of the Atlantic, Eduardo Verano, and Alvaro Osorio Transmetro manager, do a tour of the Olaya Herrera Trunk to station Cathedral, unveil the plaque recognition, the Auxiliary Bishop of Barranquilla, Monsignor Victor Tamayo will give blessing to the vehicles. It will, then, when 150 people were benefited through the website Transmetro, made the first official tour with them dig up the educational sessions to be carried out through various strategies with tours of the stem, talks to community in which they explain the methods of payment, system services, schedules and specifications for use as relevant aspects to the rules and road safety.
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