TRANSANTIAGO. BEFORE AND AFTER

Trasantiago was implemented in January 2006, at that time i was living in Temuco, so i didn´t travel in the old bus system. although this, i heard a lot of comments about the change of the public trasport.

First, i know that the previous system has old buses that were very noisy and obviously this affect people´s tranquility in the streets, and even causes stress. So, in this way Trasantiago is a huge advance, and i think this is the better improvement of this new system. Besides, drivers receive a regular payment and they don´t worry about how many people get on the bus or going fast in city to win the higher number of passengers as posible. In this sense this contribute to the security of people.

On the other hand, transantiago is a headache to a lot of people, mainly the ones who lives outskirts, because the routes are not well desings and engineers (the responsibles!) don´t consider either people needs not the rush hours or the number of passengers according the neighbourhood, so it was common that people take more than before to arrive to work, for example. although, this is improving, actually.

I think the money is the main factor to improve the service, money is necessary to buy more buses and do exclusive ways for buses (to travel faster), but also its necesary anthropologists that ask people the things they needs according their conditions (for example, the population, the hours they mainly need buses, etc) and apply this to the system.