Well, in Chile we have a good idea of the public transport but it has not been well executed, by one side we have the regularity of the subway called “Metro”, but by the other side, the urban buses called Transantiago dont do their job, many people are not happy with the performance of transantiago, too much time of waiting, poor condition of the buses and very high rates, another problem is the situation that confronts taxi driver and Uber drivers, but this is a hard topic, now I will try to describe the situation about cyclists. In Chile in the lasts days have to front a weird new law, about a road coexistence, but only affected to cycles, in simply words, this law says: all the cyclists who are between 15 and 65 years old have to transit on the street or on bikeway and not on the sidewalk, this is not the problem, this law is really brilliant, but obviously this law is taken from the countries that they have a good bike culture and a lot of good bikeways, thing that not happen in Chile, so many people prefer ride his bike on the sidewalk and pay the fine se as not to be run over by the car or a bus, authorities don´t talk about this law and this problems, another hilarious topic of this law is the reflective vest, the first days that this law run, the police took fines to the cyclists because they don´t wear the reflective vest on the day, ON THE DAY! The law says explicit: the reflective vest should be dressed 30 minutes after the sun sets, until 30 minutes before the sun comes up. In simply words you be dressed the reflective vest in the night, so, too many fines were taken with no reason and with negligence of the police.
The only solution to this situation that I see, is build a lot of bike ways in a short time (until 2020) to give a reason of this law continues to exist, and of course, give to the people some orientations about a road coexistence.
The only solution to this situation that I see, is build a lot of bike ways in a short time (until 2020) to give a reason of this law continues to exist, and of course, give to the people some orientations about a road coexistence.

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