Friday, 4 September 2009

Post # 3: Transantiago, before and after





The transantiago is the Chilean system of transport, and just like a lot of chilean innovations, this system is an imitation of another country, with a lot of buses from Brazil.. very very original.

Well, this system was bad implemented for impulsive chileans, the same that stand the bad education in Chile because their ideas are "win votes for give us bread" ( bread and circus for the poor), and ... well, any idea for make better the air pollution.

This is a simple system what use the new technology in the locomotion, using electronic cards in electronic collectors, giving more tranquility to the drivers of the bus because they don't need collect or figth with the passengers. And for the routes, the technology use GPSs, more hidraulic systems and buses more ergonomic, for all people (even handicapped person).

The system is at its most, for a lot of reasons what make the trip really unpleasant, fot the smells, the suffocating air and the uncomfortable in the peak hours.. but, in the buses don't exist so much thefts, because there isn't place for do it, i think that is a good point.

In my chase, the transantiago give me the possibility of don't lose so much money for every way of transport that i take, for the long distance what i must cover for go to the university. Too, the Transantiago reduce the possibility of being attacked in the nigth, because the line is shorter than the past, when a trip was around San bernardo, Pte Alto, La La Florida, a trip of the death!!

I think that the problem is the excess of population in Santiago, the State must make reforms doing better place for study in city don't called "Santiago", where people who want study, must go to Santiago and live there, and too the people don't want go away from Santiago, and that is obvusly if in another place don't exist a similar way of life... I want maintain the natural chilean culture, the porotos and the clean air in the south of Chile, but i think that if we put place similar than santiago, like the same oportunity of job, schools, universitys, pubs, or malls ( obvusly inplace where the impact don't be so hard), i think that we can distribute chilean population in all the country, decressing the excess of problems in Santiago and increassing the oportunitys in the others regions.

1 comment:

  1. it isn't true that you can't be stolen in transantiago, a friend lost her clephone there o.o

    funny pictures alvaro ahahah

    take care

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