Lawyers Paying $8.47 on Cabs Deepens Chile Bus-Bond Rout

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Riding the bus to work in Santiago takes so long that Andrea Gomez, a 32-year-old lawyer, spends almost seven times as much money a day on taxis to avoid delays.

“It takes forever to get to work, and you arrive in a bad mood” when you ride the bus, Gomez said by telephone from the Chilean capital. “Then it takes two hours to get home.”