Abstract

The Santiago metro system, which carried its first passengers in 1975, has proved an expensive and only partly successful method of responding to the city's public transport needs. Not only has expenditure on the metro far exceeded original estimates, but the diversion of a substantial proportion of the national budget to a transport system only servicing residents of Santiago has led to a regional imbalance between Santiago and Chile's other urban areas.

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