New public transport system in the Metropolitan area of Mendoza, Argentina. Some reflections on mobility

Abstract

Nowadays, daily mobility takes place in increasingly complex contexts typical of neoliberal cities. Hence the relevance of urban transport systems that ensure this human right associated with meeting the basic needs of the population. The article analyses the new public passenger transport system in the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza (AMM), an intermediate city in the center-west of Argentina, inaugurated last January. Some of the questions to be answered are: what are the characteristics of this new transport system and what is the access to mobility between residents of peripheral neighborhoods of the AMM and, therefore, to the appropriation, production and daily reproduction of the city. It is assumed that the public transport system contributes to unequal forms of mobility within cities. The inquiry uses qualitative methodological tools such as documentary analysis, field observation and individual interviews.