Our transport system

Today Chile have a complex transport system, which have been very criticized. I’m talking about Transantiago. But before talk about the horrible that the system is, I think that is necessary to do a comparison with the old transport system that we had.

For example, I remember that the “yellow” buses had routes that sometimes, crossed the entire city. Now you have to use 2 or 3 buses, because Transantiago system have a lot of central buses, which cover the principal avenues of Santiago in association with Metro. To get to these buses and to the subway, you have to travel in smaller buses. This little buses have different colors, each color belong to a zone in which this buses travel. So the old system was simpler than Transantiago. Moreover, in the old system you didn’t have to change of bus, so it was faster than the new system.

Other example is that to get on the Transantiago buses the most of the time you have to line up in the bus stop, with the “yellow” buses you didn’t have to do this and you didn’t have to wait for long time to get on the bus.

But not all things in Transantiago are bad. I can say that Transantiago buses are cleaner and more modern that “yellow” buses. These buses are cleaner because you don’t pay with coins, to pay in Transantiago you have to use you Bip! Card, which is most hygienic that the coins. I think that Transantiago have a potential, but is necessary that the authorities and all the people who use the buses, do their best to improve it.