Ahhh, the joys of living in Lima. Here in this wonderfully designed urban landscape we, the users of the "public" transport system, have the luxury of having more bus tops than street corners. How you might ask is this possible? Well it just is. Apparently, every person in Lima is a moving bus stop. It does not matter where you are if you stick out your arm and flick your index finger a bus, that just seconds before was careening down the boulevard, will come to a screeching halt. Not even Superman had this type of power. All it takes is a flick of the wrist to exercise power over the "public" transport system here in Lima. This hold true in all circumstances. The power is so great that each individual possesses that a bus will stop 3 or more times on the same city block to pick up or drop off passengers.
The only thing that is now required is for the Municipality of Lima to remove those ugly blue signs that faintly try to indicate where the "officially" sanctioned bus tops are. While they are at it they can also remove the bus top prohibited signs as, if we are going to be truly honest with ourselves, had little affect as to where the people boarded or disembarked their bus.
So instead of complaining about the lack of order and respect of the law in Lima's "public" transport system we users should rejoice in the fact that to some extent Lima has created what could be the world's first individualized mass transit system. Hats off to you Lima!
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