New systems ...improove or disaster ???

Transantiago is the new public transport system created in 2007 by our government. Its finality was to avoid bus races in the streets because they produced many accidents. Another reason why this system was implemented is because of a few people own those companies used to have a kind of a monopoly.

The supposed benefits this new transport system would carry to the community were, firstly, less time traveling, secondly, more comfortable machines, thirdly, less air contamination and, finally, less money used in tickets.

This new system consists in having different buses to determined areas of Santiago. If you want to travel from one point to another of different area of Santiago you have to change from one bus to another. You can make 3 bus changes in a route through a period of 2 hours paying only one ticket, these changes cost $400 for adults and $130 for students.

The main problem of this new transport system is that it’s too expensive to our government, because now the ticket costs less than the real price. But if they increase the cost of it, people that use Transantiago will protest a lot against it. Another problem it has it’s that people who travel long distances have to make a lot of changes through their daily routes and that’s very annoying for them.