GIVING OPINIONS

For me, public transportation must be free. I've thought about this a couple of times, and I think I have a good argument.

Consider only Santiago de Chile, the city that mobilizes most people in the country. People are transported every day by metro or by bus to do three main things: 1) people travel by public transport to work; 2) people travel by public transport to study (in the case of younger people); 3) People travel by public transport to go buy / pay something.

There are very few people who travel to visit someone, or because they go for a walk. So, if the vast majority of people go to work at a company where it contributes to increase the capital and money of an entrepreneur, or travel to study so that tomorrow have a good profession and also contribute to maintaining the labor system, or go directly to buy or pay your outstanding bills, then ... why, in addition to all this, should you pay for your ticket?

We pay to go to work to increase the earnings of "another person"; We pay public transport tickets to pay for other things. Given this situation, I think that the least that can happen is not having to pay for the ticket. The Chilean government has enough money to finance this type of initiative, to provide a quality service, and so that its citizens can go to their places of work and study without major inconveniences.

In addition to this, we not only have to pay a mandatory ticket to transport ourselves: we must pay for a passage with an extremely high price.

The average price of a liter of fuel in Chile is $ 820 Chilean pesos. The passage in transantiago is $ 780 during peak hours. The most sold automobile in Chile during 2018 was the Chevrolet Sail, which yields 17 kilometers per liter. The people who daily pay 780 Chilean pesos in transantiago for a single trip, could travel almost for the same money 17 kilometers away if they had a vehicle. Then the problem includes a variable related to access to a vehicle.