lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2009

Transantiago: before and after

I think the new public transport system has demonstrated to be more efficient than the former one along the past three years. Pre-Transantiago buses were terribly uncomfortable and didn't have regular stops - drivers could take and drop passengers wherever they wanted, with the only guide of their economic interests. That's the reason why students were often displaced from the transport system: they were not rentable passengers from the driver's mean point of view. But, as everybody knows, Transantiago was not a pleasant experience when it started. I remember when I first took a Transantiago bus. It was a free ride, but hanging from the last door... and it was the same over the next months. With time it started to get better, though. Some days I even could travel sit. And the advantages of the new system finally began to appear: it was cheaper, friendlier with environment and faster in some cases. Now, Transantiago works quite properly, but I'd suggest a few changes which may help to its future development. For example, it would be nice if there were more buses out in the night - it's not very nice to wait forty five minutes for a bus at four in the morning, and finally missing it just because the driver was not willing to stop. A useful transport policy to increase security on the streets would be to maintain a decent amount of buses all night long, apart from having the subway opened from, let’s say, five in the morning. It would be a solution not only for night clubs customers, but for some early rised workers too.

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