Transantiago, Before and after

Based on my own experience, Transantiago system has actually worked very well, however, I had little experience on the yellow buses system. I remember I had to take just two routes in that time; the 100 and 636. The buses were in a terrible state, with a lot of seats without their backs; in one word, the state of those buses was worse of the actual ones. However, I always had to take just one bus to go everyplace I wanted, and now I had to do a lot of combinations to reach my destination; in that sense, the past system was better and more “comfortable” (considering the poor condition of the buses).

When I started university I began to use the Transantiago more frequently; it was the first year it was implemented. I had to put on the crowd and the long wait for the bus to come. I had to get out of my house one and a half hour before the start of the class to arrive on time. In definitely those were the more stressing moments, and the worse ones of the period Transantiago has been set on motion. Now it only takes my one hour to get to the university, and in some hours the buses are not crowded at all. The waits had been reduced in a very significantly way.

In order to make it a more effective bus system, I think that to evaluate first the principal problem is the better way to do it. As I see it, currently the principal problem is the long waits on the bus stop. To solve this, I thing is necessary a system that involve a mayor number of buses and a schedule more accurate and of knowledge of everyone