To Urs: transports

[bona]

Hi Urs,

I think here in Rio de Janeiro the worst problem is public transport. As Rio de Janeiro is so big many people live farway from their work (I for exemple take 2 hours of bus plux 15 min of walk to get to the job).

The main transports are train, metro, buses and car. The main road is Brazil Av that link west zone to Rio's financial and commercial center. The traffic is so intense in the rush hours that a route of 30 min takes 2 hours (by car).

The buses are deficient in this route so many of than are very full.

The train is the best option (more fast) but is very hard take trains some hours, to much people going to the same place. The official number are 136 millions peoples per year using this transport. The record was 528 thousant peoples in only one day. And the service and trains are not so good.

The metro has connection with train so it full of people too. But the quality of service is very high. However it has only two lines. I think it need more lines to same place to reduce the numer of people. The number are 1,2 million passenger per day.

Beside of the overcrowding, in the summer the hot is amazing, being a serius problem.

I think transports will be the biggest problem to resolve for the World Soccer Cup and the Olympic games (2014 and 2016). The actual government are working with the criminal problems and they doing a great job.

Hugs

Andre