Transantiago

Today I must write about Transantiago, the public transport system of my city. I must tell you about its problems, its changes and my experience with it, but there is just one problem… I don´t use it, I have a car and I go everywhere in it, my parents gave it to me in my graduation ceremony of school and since then I`d been using it almost every day. But I`m going to try writing about Transantiago based on what people and the news say.

I think Transantiago is better than the previous public transport system in many ways, is modern and more organized than the previous system. I think the problem is people was used to the yellow buses and their routes, and I think is hard for them adapting to a new system.

When Transantiago started the things were very messy and there were a lot of problems, but I think is normal, the same things happened in Bogota, Colombia when Transmilenio started (I know because I have friends in Colombia and I was there 4 years ago). Today Transantiago is better than 3 years ago, although it needs a lot of changes.

Finally, I must tell you about the changes I would apply in order to make it better in the future. I think what Transantiago needs is a city adapted to this system, because most of the street are very narrow and they are in bad conditions to be used. I would invest money improving the streets and the subway. And the other main problem is most people haven´t the education to use the buses and the subway, the buses stops, some buses and the subway are all painted and broken because of some people, so what I would do is apply fines to people who do that.

Meanwhile I´m going to keep using my car.. jajaja

Dk