This one broke my heart. I only hope some good comes out of it in the form of the new AMET chief going after these ignorant and selfish criminals, as he has been talking about doing. Their utter lack of regard for safety is worse than the power outages and violent crime because, unlike those unpleasant aspects of life in the country, it is constant.
The part that really bothered me is that the poor woman had not been given time to take a seat. We've all seen the drivers take off before passengers have even fully boarded the vehicles, with one foot still on the sidewalk. The drivers sometimes don't bother checking, they just floor it so they can't beat their fellow union member to the next group of desparate passengers.
Worse still are the "voladores," the mini van drivers who make the guagua drivers seem like safety instructors by comparison. Those guys have routes like Guachupita/Gualey or Isabel Aguiar in Herrera, it's death on wheels.
It's true what some of the pundits have been saying. The transport union members (a.k.a. the country's owners) opearte with virtual impunity, and they are no angels.
The part that really bothered me is that the poor woman had not been given time to take a seat. We've all seen the drivers take off before passengers have even fully boarded the vehicles, with one foot still on the sidewalk. The drivers sometimes don't bother checking, they just floor it so they can't beat their fellow union member to the next group of desparate passengers.
Worse still are the "voladores," the mini van drivers who make the guagua drivers seem like safety instructors by comparison. Those guys have routes like Guachupita/Gualey or Isabel Aguiar in Herrera, it's death on wheels.
It's true what some of the pundits have been saying. The transport union members (a.k.a. the country's owners) opearte with virtual impunity, and they are no angels.