I’m from Rancagua and the first year that transantiago started (2007) was my first year living in the capital. I was very scared because I watched the news with all that people almost hanging of the bus doors. Another thing to worry was that I barely traveled in bus before 2007 (in Rancagua is more common to use “colectivos”, some sort of taxis but with a defined rout).
In spite of all, my experience was not so terrifying because I could get to College very easily. The only problem was that I didn’t (and still don’t) know Santiago so I had to take the same road, otherwise I got lost :s.
But there is something that I still can’t understand which is the rudeness of the people, like when they hit you for accident they never say sorry and that pisses me off every day it happens to me. Also the way you feel on street is wired because even when you are not hurried or late for something you feel the need of always going fast J.
Transantiago is for me a very good initiative but I think the government implemented it in a too short amount of time and that was the reason for the chaos we have now. The funny thing is that within a year of this new “system”, there was an improvement at least in the way I get to the faculty and this year that improvement fell down because now there are new bus stops but unfortunately a few number of buses actually stop :D. that way all the people that’s going to the campus do it in only one or two buses…that’s mad!!…and the time you needed to arrive at the faculty has duplicated since so it’s very bad.
One thing that can be fixed is the number of buses that stop at college because most people using the public transport are students and I always see lots of “203” buses passing in a row but no one really takes them at that hour. I think there is a need of having a better distribution of the buses according to the time they are most used for people.
I just hope that in the future transantiago can be more balanced and the authorities notice where the problems are and we finally have the system we deserve.
I’m from Rancagua and the first year that transantiago started (2007) was my first year living in the capital. I was very scared because I watched the news with all that people almost hanging of the bus doors. Another thing to worry was that I barely traveled in bus before 2007 (in Rancagua is more common to use “colectivos”, some sort of taxis but with a defined rout).
ReplyDeleteIn spite of all, my experience was not so terrifying because I could get to College very easily. The only problem was that I didn’t (and still don’t) know Santiago so I had to take the same road, otherwise I got lost :s.
But there is something that I still can’t understand which is the rudeness of the people, like when they hit you for accident they never say sorry and that pisses me off every day it happens to me. Also the way you feel on street is wired because even when you are not hurried or late for something you feel the need of always going fast J.
Transantiago is for me a very good initiative but I think the government implemented it in a too short amount of time and that was the reason for the chaos we have now. The funny thing is that within a year of this new “system”, there was an improvement at least in the way I get to the faculty and this year that improvement fell down because now there are new bus stops but unfortunately a few number of buses actually stop :D. that way all the people that’s going to the campus do it in only one or two buses…that’s mad!!…and the time you needed to arrive at the faculty has duplicated since so it’s very bad.
One thing that can be fixed is the number of buses that stop at college because most people using the public transport are students and I always see lots of “203” buses passing in a row but no one really takes them at that hour. I think there is a need of having a better distribution of the buses according to the time they are most used for people.
I just hope that in the future transantiago can be more balanced and the authorities notice where the problems are and we finally have the system we deserve
Andres,
so if you cannot change routes otherwise you get lost?
shame on you!!
miss