By Fernando Ubiergo, songwriter
Santiago experienced dramatic consequences for the implementation a public transport system has not worked. Probably the most obvious and painful failure of public policy in the governments of the cooperation, at least in his game. It is this unfortunate event which makes me think about the city, accusing the major economic, social and cultural factors that have hit the country in recent decades. Somehow the Transantiago looms as the face of profound changes that attempt to capital comprender.La tripled its population in less than fifty years and is rapidly shed from the steep valleys. Development usually induced or caused by the relentless speculation was enhanced the segregated nature of the city extending from Andean valleys and folds to the economically more prosperous citizens, including highways, neighborhoods equipped with its own first-world infrastructure but a cannon shot cohabiting with social overcrowding that for various reasons have undergone generations Chilean families, crowded into the so-called "housing solutions" buildings and developments outlined for decades without estimating the social impact that would have on thousands of families now living in very precarious conditions, although to qualify for the statistics on "line poverty. "The fact is that the administration assuming strives to exceed the number of "housing solutions" of the previous mandate, with more attention to the figure in the capita, more in quantity than quality, thus contributing to peripheral formation of a complex social fabric, where lack of space, increased promiscuity and violence reach a critical point that severely affects the living, mental health and happiness of so many human beings, especially the pobres.Y although the impact of these policies can be seen, their social effects are not always quantifiable. No doubt these problems currently affecting large parts of the city, such as poverty, insecurity, long commutes, lack Expectations give way to resentment, aggressiveness, creating conditions for the degradation of the social fabric, a breeding ground for criminal activities that many families are sleeping under fire crazy. These are evils inherent to large cities thought somebody. It may be so, it does not imply accept it and give up asombro.Sin but thousands of young students and workers are leaving at the big city looking for opportunities in their home are not. If even the Congress wants to move a bad sign, but I understand those who try, as they feel that outside of Santiago are out of everything. It is as if the country, the array at the tunnel Lo Prado, determining to the north and Chacabuco Angostura Paine in the south. The look short, narrow, comfortable and, worse, the absence of a territorial development plan should start by stopping the growth of an unhappy city that hosts almost 40% of the population of the country and as a black hole swallows a lot of resources generated in the regions, for many times to solve the knots of the infrastructure and problems of a city under constant threat of collapse, and all this for? To continue to build up stress and building ghettos for thousands. Six million lives in just over 100 square kilometers, heads bowed, fighting the air polluted with industrial and and a half million engines between narrow streets full of "events". It seems to be essential to develop and implement a master plan study, a distinct urban development policy at the national level reconquer and optimize the use and development of the territory from the characteristics of each zone or region, considering the impending global climate change and the exploration of renewable and sustainable energy. A nearby example of unpopulated areas, from San Antonio to Conception on the coast is 500 kilometers and a human settlement that borders sool 50,000 inhabitants (Constitution). From the bay of Valparaiso to Coquimbo, not a single village in excess of 15,000 people in another 500 kilometers of coastal landscapes, villages, streams, estuaries, wildlife, wetlands, islands, beaches, cliffs, creeks, forests, reefs, flora, fish and much oxígeno.Por do not imagine, and gradually creating spaces development, human scale, where young Chilean families can live in a nicer environment. Implementing clean energy sources, with solutions that consider the welfare and happiness of people as an end in cord.The territory has the potential, but needs a new way of looking at it, watching us. How? Well, I'm no expert, I am a musician, I do not know but I can build bridges dream, someone should. Then would implement every possible form of investment incentives, subsidies, tax breaks, etc. zone assignments. industries relocating, moving services, government agencies and businesses related production areas. Create centers of development in areas that allow growth in harmony with the environment, considering the potential of each site. I accept that development costs force people to live in a cage or a large part of the children in Santiago do not know the sea. We are a poor territory inhabited, unknown to most, we have thousands of miles of coastline, almost uninhabited entire regions. And there are many professionals talented and visionary than a disciplinary action may suggest innovative projects that require new generations. But alas, I put my feet on the floor again, being realistic I think nothing of what I imagine will be possible under the rarefied atmosphere of Chilean politics and short-term almost always entrenched in confusion in the historical chieftaincies and selfishness. The country and the challenges today require minds open, generous and enterprising, as in the request is no guile, I consider urgently a change inside the political tent, a bold shift in public servants seeking wider horizons, with wisdom and generosity foolproof, ending with bangs unfortunate, improper practice to continue to occupy the desks of power while surviving the utilitarian conception of the party-employment agency. It is an issue that should take with frankness and courage all the political currents that a long time ago moved away from the common citizen. This is a time extremely complex, where the future no longer seems a place so true. Therefore, this time requires profound changes in this area so important for everyone's future. We need a dream as a country, something true to believe in to rescue us from environmental and sadness that James no longer "The city of sad faces."
Santiago experienced dramatic consequences for the implementation a public transport system has not worked. Probably the most obvious and painful failure of public policy in the governments of the cooperation, at least in his game. It is this unfortunate event which makes me think about the city, accusing the major economic, social and cultural factors that have hit the country in recent decades. Somehow the Transantiago looms as the face of profound changes that attempt to capital comprender.La tripled its population in less than fifty years and is rapidly shed from the steep valleys. Development usually induced or caused by the relentless speculation was enhanced the segregated nature of the city extending from Andean valleys and folds to the economically more prosperous citizens, including highways, neighborhoods equipped with its own first-world infrastructure but a cannon shot cohabiting with social overcrowding that for various reasons have undergone generations Chilean families, crowded into the so-called "housing solutions" buildings and developments outlined for decades without estimating the social impact that would have on thousands of families now living in very precarious conditions, although to qualify for the statistics on "line poverty. "The fact is that the administration assuming strives to exceed the number of "housing solutions" of the previous mandate, with more attention to the figure in the capita, more in quantity than quality, thus contributing to peripheral formation of a complex social fabric, where lack of space, increased promiscuity and violence reach a critical point that severely affects the living, mental health and happiness of so many human beings, especially the pobres.Y although the impact of these policies can be seen, their social effects are not always quantifiable. No doubt these problems currently affecting large parts of the city, such as poverty, insecurity, long commutes, lack Expectations give way to resentment, aggressiveness, creating conditions for the degradation of the social fabric, a breeding ground for criminal activities that many families are sleeping under fire crazy. These are evils inherent to large cities thought somebody. It may be so, it does not imply accept it and give up asombro.Sin but thousands of young students and workers are leaving at the big city looking for opportunities in their home are not. If even the Congress wants to move a bad sign, but I understand those who try, as they feel that outside of Santiago are out of everything. It is as if the country, the array at the tunnel Lo Prado, determining to the north and Chacabuco Angostura Paine in the south. The look short, narrow, comfortable and, worse, the absence of a territorial development plan should start by stopping the growth of an unhappy city that hosts almost 40% of the population of the country and as a black hole swallows a lot of resources generated in the regions, for many times to solve the knots of the infrastructure and problems of a city under constant threat of collapse, and all this for? To continue to build up stress and building ghettos for thousands. Six million lives in just over 100 square kilometers, heads bowed, fighting the air polluted with industrial and and a half million engines between narrow streets full of "events". It seems to be essential to develop and implement a master plan study, a distinct urban development policy at the national level reconquer and optimize the use and development of the territory from the characteristics of each zone or region, considering the impending global climate change and the exploration of renewable and sustainable energy. A nearby example of unpopulated areas, from San Antonio to Conception on the coast is 500 kilometers and a human settlement that borders sool 50,000 inhabitants (Constitution). From the bay of Valparaiso to Coquimbo, not a single village in excess of 15,000 people in another 500 kilometers of coastal landscapes, villages, streams, estuaries, wildlife, wetlands, islands, beaches, cliffs, creeks, forests, reefs, flora, fish and much oxígeno.Por do not imagine, and gradually creating spaces development, human scale, where young Chilean families can live in a nicer environment. Implementing clean energy sources, with solutions that consider the welfare and happiness of people as an end in cord.The territory has the potential, but needs a new way of looking at it, watching us. How? Well, I'm no expert, I am a musician, I do not know but I can build bridges dream, someone should. Then would implement every possible form of investment incentives, subsidies, tax breaks, etc. zone assignments. industries relocating, moving services, government agencies and businesses related production areas. Create centers of development in areas that allow growth in harmony with the environment, considering the potential of each site. I accept that development costs force people to live in a cage or a large part of the children in Santiago do not know the sea. We are a poor territory inhabited, unknown to most, we have thousands of miles of coastline, almost uninhabited entire regions. And there are many professionals talented and visionary than a disciplinary action may suggest innovative projects that require new generations. But alas, I put my feet on the floor again, being realistic I think nothing of what I imagine will be possible under the rarefied atmosphere of Chilean politics and short-term almost always entrenched in confusion in the historical chieftaincies and selfishness. The country and the challenges today require minds open, generous and enterprising, as in the request is no guile, I consider urgently a change inside the political tent, a bold shift in public servants seeking wider horizons, with wisdom and generosity foolproof, ending with bangs unfortunate, improper practice to continue to occupy the desks of power while surviving the utilitarian conception of the party-employment agency. It is an issue that should take with frankness and courage all the political currents that a long time ago moved away from the common citizen. This is a time extremely complex, where the future no longer seems a place so true. Therefore, this time requires profound changes in this area so important for everyone's future. We need a dream as a country, something true to believe in to rescue us from environmental and sadness that James no longer "The city of sad faces."
