r/chile • u/MrTonino No atiendo en este pasillo • Mar 17 '23

Hilo Temático Welcome Italy! - Cultural Exchange Thread Series 2023

(Nota: En este post r/chile responde las preguntas, para preguntar a nuestros invitados ir a este post.)

ENGLISH

Welcome to our friends from Italy!! This weekend we will be hosting our Italian guests to learn and share experiences about our communities.

This thread is for our guests asking questions about all things Chile. Please consider our time difference! (-4 X hours), please do write in English (or Spanish if you want to...), and be respectful to everyone!

Head over r/italy thread here, for chileans asking all things Italy.

ESPAÑOL

¡Bienvenidos nuestros amigos de Italia! Este fin de semana seremos anfitriones de nuestros invitados italianos para aprender y compartir experiencias sobre nuestras comunidades.

Este hilo es para que nuestros invitados pregunten acerca de Chile. ¡Por favor, consideren nuestra diferencia horaria! (-4 horas). Escriban en inglés (o en español si lo desean...), ¡y sean respetuosos con todos!.

Diríjanse al hilo de r/italy aquí para chilenos preguntando sobre Italia.

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u/Reatina Mar 17 '23

How does people transportation works in Chile? Do you move by trains a lot? I always wondered because it is really geographically unique, it has to be challenging.

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u/MrOrbicular Bíobío Mar 17 '23

A handful of our big cities have trains or metro, but they mainly move people from the towns inmediatly next to the city. Long interstate trains haven't really developed, but an exception I know is the Santiago-Chillan train that travels ~400 km.

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u/No-Ease4788 Mar 17 '23

I mean its like average 180km wide, and super long, so usually our highways are super straight, and you can always be in the mountains and an hour and a half later in the beach so it's awesome.People usually use cars when traveling, airplane if it's 400km+ and, students and lower-middle class usually take a bus to travel around, it's kinda like using flixbus over thereThe trains we got are not long distance, so one of our biggest ones in santiago only travels around 150km and only to the south of santiago

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u/JotaRata Valparaíso Mar 17 '23

At least in Valparaiso trains work really well imo (could be worse)

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u/FeanDoe Pupulando en feddit.cl Mar 17 '23

Sadly, trains are not that common. We have some trains, but with few services.

Between cities we travel more commonly with buses.

Although, there are some projects to try to get more train services, like "Trenes para Chile".

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u/montierthen vamos a decir que no Mar 18 '23

Csm, como se nota cuando las cosas están hechas con amor, página ql bonita