translated from Spanish: Train, tram, Metro or Micros: No one says much of the announcement about a means of transportation to Santiago Airport

The public account of the president, Sebastián Piñera, brought with him a series of announcements on transport and one of the most striking was to revive the project on a journey to the international Airport Arturo Merino Benítez, a long-awaited initiative As postponed.
In December 2017, the government of the then President Michelle Bachelet announced the start-up for January 2018 of the Transantiago Route 555, a service that sought to reach the international air terminal.
The announcement was made with fanfare, but finally the project did not have a green light due to a struggle between the ministries of Transport and Public works, in relation to where the whereabouts should be located. Transport requested that it be located in the street of exit of the terminal to 100 meters of the main building, but the MOP suggested that this stop was close to the Pehuen parking, to almost 1 kilometer of the terminal.
Another element that difficult the launch of the project had to do with the two concessions of the MOP to the companies Peatus and Centropuerto, both with contracts in force with new Pudahuel, concessionaire of the air terminal. The problem settled in making these routes coexist with a service of the Transantiago, considering that the link establishes an exclusive and coordinated route between them every half hour, so that a new one of the Transantiago would have meant a decrease in the Income from these two companies.
In Saturday’s public account, Piñera spoke of a “deep modernization” of the public transport system, which includes a train ride to Santiago Airport, which is not in the way of what has been raised by the MOP that has shown more interest in the idea of a Tram that arrives to the air terminal.
The information the last few months on this subject has been vague and inaccurate. A little over a month ago, the counter communicated with the transport and public works portfolios in order to know in detail about the possibility of a project that joined the capital with the airport, but after several days and attempts of calls and emails , the questions were never answered. No one gives concrete answers.

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