Este Ensayo publicado en Julio del 2015 por la Universidad Católica se adelanta a la tendencia de la “Reforma del Transporte Público” y establece que no se va a poder dar o que necesitará de una Solución Política, cual es, la Autoridad de Transporte Urbano, con lo que el Gobierno Central cumple con resolver el problema del transporte de Lima y Callao.
An Essay uses imaginative educated guesses to forsee the future. It is surprisingly accurate this Essay on Public Transportation of Lima and Callao because it analyzes the problems of progress when there are not Engineers or Planners capable to solve so simple problems, and there is not Evaluation of Alternatives either, no wonder. The Process of Reform employs apparentlty good ideas that can be called “arbitrary” by the Professional or Practitioner in Transportation. Then it comes the sacrifice, which are the weak or informal private operators, and finally the discrimination, which is the separation of bus transit market in two: 1.- the traditional efficient free competitive private operators, which are “declared informal” by the authorities and that offer a quite acceptable good service, and 2.- the modern higher-cost and subsidy-needy semi-public operators, which are “called formal” by the municipal authorities and that offer a very lower level of service (longer waiting time, much elongated walking time, no seats as before, crowded vehicles, and 150% higher fares). The sector 1 diminishes under the pressure of the authorities, to “give the market” to the sector 2; and so funny, the first thing the authorities do is “ask for subsidies because they are protected by authorities!”. The whole idea is a very real Apartheid system. Amazing! in the 21st Century.