lunes, 24 de agosto de 2009

Transantiago :/

Hello friends, today I´m going to talk about Transantiago. This system was applied during Michelle Bachelet´s government, but it was planned since Ricardo Lagos´s government. The idea was to change the old transport system, the one with the yellow buses, for a new and technological one.
The change was a little bit precipitated, so at first everything was disorganized and chaotic. People were angry because they couldn’t get to work or to school at time, mostly in the poorest areas. Nobody knew how the system worked, the buses routes or where the bus´s stop where. Transantiago has been a big alteration on Santiago´s citizen’s life. It functions with a couple of principal line buses and with little ones in every suburb, so it is difficult to remember all the routes.
Since it was applied some years ago, Transantiago has improved a lot, I haven´t had much problems these days, I only think it’s a little slow and “pick” hours are terrible, you hardly can breathe when you are inside a bus! Millions of dollars has been spent on making the service better, but always by private business who makes money with this kind of projects. Although Transantiago doesn´t function too bad, I think public transport should be financed by the State, as should be education and health. Good bye fellows, see you next time.

2 comentarios:

  1. Me too.
    Bye!



    (about the public transport & the state)
    See you in Buenos Aires!

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  2. Transantiago sucks!

    i prefer to stay in my city, without transantiago's shit :D

    bye!

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