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Social exclusion has eased due to the
development of transport infrastructure; the Metro, a new system of public
buses is being planned with the so-called "Metroplus" already
inaugurated, and a network of ski-lifts in the poorest barrio communities
called the "MetroCable". Additionally, an electric escalator 1,260
feet long was inaugurated in Comuna 13, one of Medellín's poorest
neighborhoods, on December 26, 2011, making it the first and only one of its
kind in the world. Today's Medellín includes spaces for art, poetry, drama, the
construction of public libraries, the foundation of new ecological parks, and
the inclusion of people of the city in its development.
The city administration has pursued
policies that have been lauded by researchers at the Overseas Development
Institute as helping pioneer a post-Washington consensus 'local development
state' model of economic development, see here
