A Remedy for Transit Troubles Backfires in Chile, Leading Commuters to Sue

Hardly anyone argued with the overall goal: relieve the transit woes of another growing Latin American city by remodeling the local bus system to complement a recently expanded subway system.

But months after this city’s transportation redesign was unveiled, many people here cannot even mention its name — Transantiago — without rolling their eyes and mumbling in disgust. It has become the focus of the country’s largest class-action lawsuit. A congressional inquiry is trying to figure out exactly how things went so wrong.”*

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