Enrique Peñalosa  mayor of Bogotá,   questioned  , about the mass transportation system of the capital city of Colombia  compared to places like Panama  said."The Panama Metro is almost a toy compared to Transmilenio," during  a forum on the  economy "Transmilenio, for example, mobilizes more passengers  per hour sense than all the metros  in the world and mobilizes  four times more passengers per kilometer compared to the Panama Metro, "said Peñalosa,

Peñalosa was defending  the service provided by Transmilenio,  a system implemented by him in his first administration as mayor of Bogotá, between 1998 and 2000.