Glimpse.org Post... transportation in Buenos Aires

Where European culture and Latin American influence converge, Buenos Aires is a fashion district that prides itself in being advanced in both the fashion world as well as technologically for a country with such political and economic strains. It is a place where the new and old meet to create a city full of life. The bus system, usually a system seen as a form of transportation for the lower classes in the USA, is a system widely accepted by all Argentines. One must look out when crossing these streets. Even at crosswalks like the one to the right, traffic, especially buses, do not yield to pedestrians here. In fact, traffic here is the greatest risk to loss of life and limb here. This writer has come close to losing one or the other quite a few times in her short stay in Buenos Aires. People own cars, but taxis, as the one seen in the far distance to the left are just as common as the bus line. Even horse drawn carriages have a place in Buenos Aires. The transportation greatly resembles the people here. Just as I have met people of all sorts of walks of life the transportation system is full of contemporary as well as older forms of transportation. All of which head in and out of the city, in the most disorganized, organized fashion. A city that greatly resembles New York or London, takes on a whole new life through the absurdity that is transportation.