2. When crossing the street in Bogota the green man does not signal safety, just that if you cross at that moment you have a slightly lesser chance of getting run over.
3. How many people can you fit onto a buseta (mini bus)? Until its so packed you're face is wedged into to someone's armit and you are effectively dry humping a load of strangers, the answer is always more.
4. Queuing for the Transmilenio just doesn't happen. It's each man for himself at rush hour so throw away your manners, grit your teeth and do as the locals do by forcibly pushing and wedging yourself onto the bus.
5. Every time you get in a taxi you will feel like you are going to die. It's like wacky races in high speed. Just sit back and appreciate the fact that at least you will probably get to your destination on time.
6. Taxi fittings. No seatbelts, no windscreen wipers. To the taxi driver who forgot to inform me that his windscreen wipers didn't work as I got in his cab in a storm. you are crazy. Leaning out of the window every 2 minutes and dabbing your windscreen with a cloth in super heavy rain is NOT a substitute for windscreen wipers.
7. Nothing in more depressing that sitting on the Germania bus at rush hour and it moving so slowly that you get overtaken by an elderly woman plodding along the pavement.
8. Bus vendors singers, musicians, comedians and preachers. They grow on you.
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