Talk:Guatemala City

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Contra this article, Guatemala has an efficient public transportation system. It just isn't controlled by the government.

"""Efficient""" hardly qualifies it. I've ridden the busses there, soy guatemalteco. They are never on time, though that is relative because there are no schedules so you can't judge them. The buses are filthy, and prone to muggings. And the government does control the transport system because it hands out 1 franchize to 1 private company which thus has an absolute monoploy on a given bus line. The bus drivers are rude, and disrespectfull, they stop whereever they feel like it, and if a bus is running you're way, you move or get crunched.

Because the lines are badly designed and the rising gas prises poor people have to expend a considerable amount of their already meager salaries on transportation from their far away homes to their work places.

Mass transportation systems don't exist for a number of reasons: 1) the territory is prone to earthquakes so you can't build a metro, 2) the city is a solid block of concreate with no public lands on which to bulid a rail system, 3) everybody who can aford it buys a car, 4) there are no waterways.

SvenGodo 15:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone needs to mention the crime in this town.

Where did the population figures come from? Most sources seem to record it as around 1 million. Ygoloxelfer 10:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe this incident (giant sinkhole in city) should be covered. Kaivosukeltaja 11:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Kaivosukeltaja —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.88.97.52 (talk) 17:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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