Inside The Americas - Public transportation in Lima

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Today's program looks at the deplorable state of public transportation in Lima, Peru, which is often used to illustrate the failure of neo-liberal policies that give free reign to market forces. The result has been a chaotic system with constant and massive traffic jams, a high rate of accidents, and sub-standard working conditions for those employed in the sector. With this latter characterstic in mind, the program explores the daily routine of three categories of workers in the mass transportation chain: drivers, fare collectors, and dispatchers. teleSUR