Is This The End Of The Micro?

TranSantiago is gearing up to start this month, it is a plan designed to alleviate the congestion of Santiago’s hectic roadways. The idea is to better coordinate newer, larger buses that have trained drivers with the metro system. This along with the new metro line which is opening up is supposed to make Santiago a better place to drive, and ultimately to live.

I will believe it when I see it.

It isn’t that I don’t want to see some change in the transportation system, I would like nothing more than that for the Chilean capital. I just think that the micro system has gone so awry that it will take more than some bigger buses to make any sort of noticeable impact. Maybe the center of town will clear up a bit, but for the rest of Santiago’s communities, especially those that depend on the micro like many parts of La Florida, and Maipo.

So until the metro is drastically expanded to include some more communities than those who happen to lie along the central artery of the Alameda and Providencia, there will still be micros flying around the city.