a priority for the government, and called for proposals by mid-year. Colombia The Colombian National Agency of Infrastructure (ANI) was interested in building a High Speed rail link as part of Colombia's '4G Modernization'. The Transport Minister had said that plans and studies for the bullet train would commence in 2015. However, Colombia has the smallest train ridership of any large Latin American nation. There have been many proposals since the 1990s when Japanese firms wanted to build a bullet train network from Bogota to nearby cities, but the project was cancelled. References Proposed public transport