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The lack of harmonized transport: a practical example (and pathological)

For about 4 months on my commute I find an example of what the lack of coordination between the various institutions that make decisions about the transportation system in Santiago. At first I thought the authorities would eventually charge for this error (it has been previously reported ), but that has not happened, so I proceed to do this "interview suit." The axis

Curicó-Tarapacá There is a (very useful) bike path that goes from Vicuña Mackenna to Paseo Bulnes. The problem is that, besides the usual obstructions , cyclists move with difficulty in this way because some authority decided (arbitrarily) that a single block, the bike path should go across the street.

How? ... Tell the nice readers ... is it possible that such a mockery? Well if so, the following pictures to prove it.
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At the bike lane disappears and is changed to the north side of the road.



can be seen even reversed in segregating Physically this piece of bike path that nobody uses





then the cycle path continues along its original side

all this mess with the need there to give priority to turn to the left of the buses Transantiago (by Arturo Prat). Surely some official decided to switch sides complete the cycle path, a second officer decided there was not much money and a third (half case making the first and second) sent the order to execute this without even having the slightest knowledge of the problem.

It is almost funny that has changed the bike path side ... would have disappeared if only one would understand it was a (very bad) workaround to the problem of the turn of the buses. However, the waste of resources physically segregate anyone use a bike path confirms that what he was a (very bad) solution to the problem of the turn of the buses (and in passing we confirmed that in this country plenty of silver )

I do not want to accuse anyone of doing a bad job, which seems to happen is that everyone does but without a proper overall organization. Seeing this level of disorganization on a specific problem, one can imagine the level of mismatch that exists between, for example, the various ministries to try take forward a project as complex as Transantiago. It is hoped that these problems (the cycle path and the Transantiago) are solved in spite of bureaucratic barriers ...

One hopes that the "heads" serve to "something more" to shoot when an error is detected ....

John Goodmanchris Kattan

revealed policy decisions and avoidance technology

For Argos Jeria.
blog originally appeared in the Sino Bello.

In his Tropicalia 2 along with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso sings "Things have weight, mass, volume, size, time, shape, color, position, texture, length, density, value, consistency, depth, shape, temperature, function, appearance, price, destination, age, sense, things have no peace. "And I must add that I also have a policy.

many years ago, say twenty-seven, I came across an article titled "artifacts have politics?" * In it the author showed the relationship between technology and policy options, as illustrated by presenting certain design features infrastructure projects - bridges in your example - whose height did not allow access to vehicles used by the poor to more affluent areas. I think in the Chile of today we are witnessing a brutal relationship between artifacts and policy options.

When we decided to make the highways a good that could buy who could afford them, we decided simultaneously by making them available to those areas where it coexists the highest rate of car ownership and increased income: the eastern sector. So those who live there today have ready access to the airport via the north coast (which already has over $ 300 million subsidy). When we chose the same policy with public transport in area, used massively for the lower income sectors, the system was designed so that the number of buses were being funded with the then existing rate, which is why it was so low. After modern roads and buses atocha after these things, these artifacts, is the ideology of a system that discriminates on the money. It is true that this has also occurred in education and health, but these artifacts are more physically visible, although users of highways and bus atocha not see each other. I remark all this even without sin city or that such designs behave, what it is to do from the districts of Providencia and La Reina by an elevated highway, or the sin of mobility, as these highways do not solve the congestion, growing forever at the expense of urban space as seen in Mexico City and many other parties.

There are those who criticize the use of mathematics to tackle the problem of designing a public transport system. As I have shown here, the problem is not mathematical models but the objective sought to achieve with them. And this objective is political. Our goal, of course, is find a nice but.


---- * "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" By Langdon Winner. Daedalus, Vol 109, No. 1, Winter 1980. Also in The Social Shaping of Technology, edited by Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (London: Open University Press, 1985, second edition 1999). Winner is a renowned social scientist, was a contributor to Rolling Stone Magazine in the 60s and 70s.