been four years since the implementation of Transantiago. No doubt this birthday, just as the previous three, it will not be held by users and, given the current situation, not will be a happy birthday.
Four years and three governments. Some have created it, implemented and others present who can not wash its hands as it were-and are-part of the legislative system that gave its approval to the new Passenger Transport System (PTS), still can not find the solution to this complex issue. Four ministers are also to have assumed the portfolio of Transport and Telecommunications in search of solutions, none have realized that from the commercial perspective, as we assume, is simply a problem without solution.
is fair to are no longer the long walks of people without mobility, it is not known because of assaults on drivers with fatal consequences and, of course, noise pollution has decreased. However, it also would be an act of fairness to turn recognize the authority of the long "tails" at bus stops, the flashing frequency of the trips, a small number of machines that fail to supply the flow of users, a problem is worse in the hours and evenings peack, plus a long list of anomalies and illnesses of the population is well missing space and time to write them down.
However, the worst problem is the rising cost of passage. We face the seventh hike in less than a year, up nearly 50% since the beginning of this journey and a deficit exceeding $ 700 million, obviously, end up paying all Chileans, even those regions that it should not suffer the brunt of a failed system.
The new minister has shown signs of stress solutions "technical" or rather "technocratic." You only have meetings with "experts" and nothing to consider the views of users and their organizations or representatives. Is the path have come his predecessors and, except make-up, the underlying problem remains. What should be here is to address the issue from a political perspective, I have here the genesis of the case.
If all sectors agree that it is necessary to restructure the STP must agree, then the membership of it. In our opinion this has to be state.
we are convinced that we are to improve an essential system for society at large. It is thanks to the means of transport which the city moves, workers come to the companies, the sick to hospitals, students in their classrooms, etc. This, in itself, is constitutive of a right of all citizens, therefore, that right must be guaranteed by the State.
The current STP is proof that a private company (such as Transantiago) can not be as efficient as a state enterprise (such as Metro). The ability to effectively manage net assets has slowed, even the disastrous implementation and design of Transantiago. Hence, it is naive to think that is the State itself, through the Metro, which plays an important role as operator of a PTS on surface.
Users Committees have generated a host proposals along these four long years. These proposals and demands arising from the very heart of Santiago and tired of so much discomfort when traveling, insecurity in the buses, waiting long hours and grueling travel, crowded buses, from short times to validate the transfer, in short, each of the promises made at the beginning of Transantiago not fulfilled and, worse, to support a permanent increase of the passage, an issue that has caused quite a few users, middle class, have opted for borrowing in private vehicles only cause more saturation in the streets of the capital.
Undoubtedly this is a vicious circle. Lies with the new government to stop and resolve the contradiction caused by this issue: either make a radical change and the state goes to play a key role in the capital's transport Piñera or social class meets and maintains private hands, an issue that must be spring in all Chileans.
Sergio Sepúlveda S.
User Committees Coordinator
Transantiago
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