The Transport Crisis and Tourism Apartheid?

Nowhere else in the world is the phrase tourism apartheid more appropriate than in Cuba. Which is strange as the country suffers little, if any, abject poverty (people have homes, food and there is an enviable employment rate). However, the double economy is very evident in all parts of life, and straying from your place as a tourist is extremely difficult, and nowhere is this more apparent than in transport. There is a crisis of transport in Cuba, basically there isn't anywhere near enough for what is needed.

The empty six/eight lane autopista in the centre of the island, the occasional overcrowded horse cart, cram packed flat bed trucks, huge ques and waiting lists in public bus stations, lines of would be hitch hikers at every junction and bridge (all government vehicles have to pick up hitch hikers), and then the half empty Viazul “public” bus and countless tour buses, all passing exasperated looking ques of locals trying to get somewhere, looking at tourists lounging with seats reclines in air-conditioned comfort. In all of this there's interesting observations about tourism: the tourists who grow their “Che” beards and hair for the Cuba holiday, but get impatient and pushy after queing more than a minute for a bus ticket, who won't let a pregnant woman pass, or give up their seat for an elderly woman (there are surprisingly many of these young individuals). Tourism's a funny thing, especially when people often state their main reason for travel is to “experience local culture”?!