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the transit of Santiago de Chile

Problem with difficult Solution: The 34 worst tacos traffic in Santiago. Experts agree that an alternative is tolls applied to travel to the city center. While Miami, Caracas, London and Santiago are very distant from each other, all four share the same problem: large blocks daily in traffic.

According to a study by the Operations Unit Traffic Control (UOCT) , the metropolitan area has 34 spots to drive link can be seen in attached-in some of them in the morning and evening-and what is worse, with no clear resolution in sight. This is mainly because they are corners and roundabouts where there is availability of land to expand and make traffic flow more smoothly.

to this is that in today's capital is 10 percent more cars in the same period last year. is estimated that in Greater Santiago is about one million 100 thousand vehicles. In London, one of the measures already adopted the political authority to reduce its traffic problems, despite having a large area of \u200b\u200bunderground lines, is road pricing, ie charging to enter the city center. A few months ago that amount was equivalent to around 7 billion Chilean pesos, which already rose in recent weeks.

This measure, very well received by the population, made 30% reduction in vehicles entering the center daily.

Rational.

For Transportation engineer Ernesto Piwonka Catholic University, to do a rationalization of demand, ie, that people use the car more efficiently. In his view, this is achieved by road pricing systems. "It's more efficient to apply when the asset (the road) is congested, because at the time each person using it makes the rest will take longer. In the background, that person is to charge the additional cost that generates the rest and this can only be achieved through road pricing system, "poses.

Piwonka ensures that this is the only way the user of Street evaluates alternatives to rationalize the use of space and so if you have bus to go or that prefer underground lines before you pay for auto to reach downtown. Hence insists that there should be a good transport system groups, mainly buses. "Metro lines have the disadvantage that they are expensive and rigid. Built and is impossible to change. The bus is cheaper and more flexible. "

UOCT The director of the civil engineer for Transport Fernando Jofre, recognizes that in most of the 34 spots and there is no possibility of creating more capacity or infrastructure. "Perez Zujovic At the roundabout, there is little more that can be done to improve or expand access. The solution is structural, given that the building projects to be built in their surroundings more clearly complicate the industry," said .

Jofré While recognizing that road pricing can be a good solution, rather believes the best is to have good public transport system to encourage people to exit the car and take the bus or the Metro. "Therefore, today more than ever, is so important that Transantiago function optimally, and you can not pretend that all people use the car to go to work. That is not viable, because there can be space or constantly building infrastructure to accommodate increased traffic flow, "he said.

Transportation engineer at the University of Chile Francisco Martínez says that evil is always discussed the crisis in traffic staring at the point in dispute or the street that may or may not extend. "That is the way because the problem is growing with the entry of people increasing population. Although we do more highways, they are saturated at the time. "For Martinez, the alternative is also added to enhance road pricing, public transport, mainly buses." Road pricing, as in London, helps to pass her resources improve the public transport system have also less busy streets. "Martínez notes that only at that point the system will get a more reasonable balance with less use of the streets, more time available to people with much less destruction environment.

IN InternetMore information:

http://www.atinachile.cl/node/10538

ENCIFRAS

to carry three hundred thousand cars were necesitan930

33 buses (such as yellow)

9

Trolley light rail

5

1 Metro train (that also means leaving the street clear of all the vehicles mentioned here).



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Pablo Ramírez Torrejón (PD).