Thursday, September 24, 2009

Transantiago, before and after

Since Transantiago begins to work a lot of problems have happened. Many people had to suffer the lack of resources, buses, routes, drivers, and a lot of troubles to arrived to their jobs. however, in this moment we can say that we have a transport system that works in good condition, because the old weaknesses have been overcome and improved over the years, often due to pressure from people. Now, we have more buses, more routes, better drivers, better wages for workers. Moreover, one of the most important problems that resolved this new transport system is to reduce pollution and also de acustic pollution. On the other hand, students also are treated much better now than under the old system (yellow buses). Formerly the bus went at full speed, and many drivers competed for passengers because of the money that they represented. Now, all this is avoided because the new payment system Bip card. Other positive thing is that between trips should not cancel a new tariff, which allows up to 3 trips without paying for more. That's a great idea for students like me, because we can realize 3 trips without wasting any coins.
Finally, I think we still can do much better transport system. For example, implementing a continuous monitoring of the buses, so they can reduce people's waiting times between buses. The gobernment should be really regulates the problem of people who not pay, because without that money is impossible to support a transportation system like this, which is broken. Without this, we will always be forced to inject more and more extra cash to the system, which is useless unless you build a real awareness in people.

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