PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN PEREIRA

Written by: Diego Fernando lvarez Rendn

Public transport is the most used by people to move from their homes to their work places
or study places.

IT IS NOT A FAIRY TAIL

Ideally, you just have to go out and wait a
few minutes to take the bus, the reality is
that sometimes you have to wait over an
hour, if you are lucky you will find a chair
to sit, also people looking for money will
sell to you candies, they will sing you
songs of every genre and will tell you
stories.

megabs use buses from other

companies, and this triggered people to
confusion and inconvenient.
ADDITIONAL TIMES
Since the public transport system started
to use unofficial buses (because this
vehicles are from other companies) to
replace feeder buses carrying people from
their homes to the exchanger, citizens
have been subjected to a Kafkaesque
labyrinth, as some of these vehicles do
not bring a card reader and users must
make additional rows to pay their fair,
giving rise to long lines and delaying
people for their activities.

TECHNOLOGICAL HELP

CURRENT STATUS
Actually, the most important public
transport system, called megabs, is in
crisis, because none of their vehicles
passed the test that determinates the
mechanical condition of the buses and the
level of pollutants dumped into the
environment, this has caused that

Asemtur, a transport company with the

support of Inter-American Development
Bank, IDB, Pereira has implemented an
application that people can used via
internet, the page is www.miruta.com,
from there, people can find bus stations,
closed roads, routes of the buses,
attractions and the average time of public
transport, in this way, knowing what time
will pass the bus, you will not have roots
when you wait the bus.