Just more time

Before of talking about the Transantiago, I have to clarify one thing: when this system had not been implemented I lived in the Fifth Region so I didn’t use to interact some much with this transport system. Actually, I wasn’t in Santiago when the Transantiago started, so I couldn’t experiment the change directly.

However, I had came to the Metropolitan Region sometimes so I understand a few differences between both systems. Also, today, while I am leaving here in Santiago and as I know very well the transport of my city and I know there are some advantages and disadvantages with the Transantiago.

This new system is worse than the pre-Transantiago in a lot of ways and all that disadvantages have been showed by the press for a long time. Those problems are: the tours of the buses can’t reach all the zones of the city, there are too few buses so the people have to wait too much in some bus stops and it is too easy to the passenger not pay for the ticket.

By the way, I think all that problems are the answer of two characteristic of the context in wich this system have been implemented: the Transantiago is starting and the chilean people are not culturally prepared enough to receive it.

For another side, there are some advantages in this system. Those are: the bus driver have to stop in all the bus stops, also, is not necessary talk whit the driver who is, usually, whit stress and without the better attitude and the busses are bigger so it supports more passengers.

Really, I`d dont make any big change in this system because, I think, we have to have patience and give it more time.