Transantiago

Transantiago is much better than the old system. Buses used to be old, very polluting and very noisy. Also the Bip system makes everything more eficient and reduces the corruption of the bus drivers. With the old system we had to pay with coins, and sometimes the drivers used to go mad because he had to drive the bus and at the same time give you the change. Now you go to a special place where you charge your Bip card , so you just go inside the bus, pass the card next to a machine and you are ready. The problem of this is that sometimes you can't find a place to charge your card, and until you do, you can't take the bus even if you have money with you. When the Transantiago just started it was horrible, because there were not enough buses and the people was pressed inside. But now I think it's a much more intelligent system than the previous one, even if it took to long to start properly. But still there are some problems that I believe must be changed. For instance, even if the majority of the old buses were replaced, many of them are still being used, so air and acoustic pollution are still a consequence of the public transport system. So this situation must change, the goverment has to force the owners of the buses to use only new machines.