Why does Bogota have the best bike paths in the world?

Here is a random late Friday thought to cap off the week. With the constant grind here in California of wondering if we'll wake up next week with the state no longer funding schools, or maintaining the roads, why does Bogota, Columbia have the best bike paths in the world? From Wikipedia:

Bogotá's bike paths network or ciclorruta in Spanish, designed and built during the administration of Mayor Enrique Peñalosa, is also one of the most extensive in the world.

Since the construction of the ciclorutas, bicycle use has increased by 5 times in the city, and it is estimated that there are between 300,000 and 400,000 trips made daily in Bogotá by bicycle. A large portion of this use is in southern, poorer areas.

I suspect the last sentence must be the key- people who can't afford to buy a car ride a bike. Or take a bus. So governments are more responsive to the demands of transit/bike riders.

Witness, Thailand for example, and its extensive Skytrain elevated monorail system.

I'd like to see more people get out of their cars here and demand more bike paths, because frankly, riding a bike to work is much better than driving. I ride in to work at least three times a week, and every time I get back behind the wheel of my car I come closer to having a road rage breakdown at every single one of Pasadena's ubiquitous red lights. Every time I am stuck behind two cars each driving 20 mph on a 40 mph street. Every time I get cut off. Etc., etc.

Maybe I'll move to Bogota.