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The city has hired too few inspectors to catch fare-dodgers and motorists who stray into bus lanes (though cameras are catching some of the errant cars).
城市中的查票員和巡警不足，很難抓住逃票者以及那些違規(guī)占用公交車道的司機(jī)（即使攝像頭能夠抓住一些違法車輛）。
Sometimes buses are so crowded that even honest passengers have trouble reaching the card-swiper.
有時(shí)候，公交車非常擁擠以至于最誠(chéng)實(shí)的乘客也難以接觸掃卡器。
Increasingly, passengers are less inclined to pay.
漸漸地，乘客們不太愿意付錢(qián)了。
Despite the subsidies, fares have risen by 40% since 2010, far faster than most prices.
盡管有政府的補(bǔ)助，自2010年起公共交通的車費(fèi)上漲了40%，這比其他開(kāi)銷上漲速度要快得多。
Bus journeys have slowed by 8% since 2012.
但是，旅程時(shí)間卻比2012年慢了8%。
For some, fare-dodging is a form of protest.
對(duì)于一些人來(lái)說(shuō)，逃票就是一種抗?fàn)幮袨椤?/div>
Guillermo Munoz, the metropolitan area's director of public transport, admits that in some parts of the capital the service is “very bad”.
公共交通系統(tǒng)的地區(qū)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人Guillermo Munoz承認(rèn)在首都的一些地方，公共交通服務(wù)是極其糟糕的。
Last month Chile's transport minister resigned, in part to take responsibility for Transantiago's failings.
上個(gè)月，智利的交通部長(zhǎng)辭職，部分原因就是為圣地亞哥通的失敗承擔(dān)責(zé)任。
Espacio Publico says one reason for the high subsidies is that too few companies operate the buses.
Espacio Publico談到政府為公共交通提供高額補(bǔ)貼是因?yàn)檫\(yùn)營(yíng)公交的公司太少了。
The system began with 16 operators but dropouts and mergers have shrunk the number to seven.
該系統(tǒng)原本有16家運(yùn)營(yíng)商，但是有些退出或者合并，現(xiàn)在只剩下七家。
The largest firms operate 1,200 buses apiece.
最大的公司獨(dú)自運(yùn)營(yíng)1200輛公交。
This makes them “too big to fail”, says Clemente Perez of Espacio Publico.
Espacio Publico智囊機(jī)構(gòu)的Clemente Perez談到，這使得這些運(yùn)營(yíng)商“規(guī)模太大以至于不會(huì)破產(chǎn)”。
Hence the subsidies to keep money-losing companies afloat.
于是，補(bǔ)貼使賠錢(qián)公司繼續(xù)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)。
No company should have more than 10% of the market, Mr Perez thinks.
Perez認(rèn)為，任何一家公司都不應(yīng)該有超過(guò)10%的市場(chǎng)占有率。
The city will have a chance to correct that next year, when contracts to operate bus lines are to expire.
圣地亞哥明年有機(jī)會(huì)去進(jìn)行改進(jìn)，因?yàn)榈綍r(shí)候與公交運(yùn)營(yíng)商的合同就會(huì)到期。
It is likely to encourage smaller and newer companies to enter the market.
政府很有可能讓小型的新公司進(jìn)入市場(chǎng)。
That might release money for improvements.
這可能會(huì)讓更多錢(qián)流入市場(chǎng)從而情況得到改善。
The new transport minister, Paola Tapia, has created a task-force to help reduce fare-dodging and promised more money for inspectors.
新的交通部長(zhǎng)Paola Tapia已經(jīng)成立工作小組來(lái)協(xié)助減少逃票現(xiàn)象，同時(shí)承諾給檢票員提高工資。
With luck, Transantiago could become a service that commuters are happy to pay for.
如果一切順利的話，Transantiago應(yīng)該會(huì)變成一款令通勤者們愉快付錢(qián)的交通服務(wù)。
譯文來(lái)源考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)事閱讀
