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Posted by Fytton on Wed Mar 31 04:28:08 2010, in response to Re: CALTRAIN Prepares for Electrification, posted by WillD on Tue Mar 30 15:07:40 2010. There are two kinds of safety - primary and secondary. Primary safety systems try to avoid crashes; secondary safety systems try to make things safer if crashes occur.Jersey Mike has very fixed views: secondary safety is all-important, the US way of achieving it is the only way, or anyway the best way, and therefore European-style trains are inherently unsafe. The evidence is that if you are on a scheduled passenger train in a civilised country - whether in North America, Europe, Japan or Australasia - you are in one of the safest places on Earth. If you wouldn't ride a train in those places because of saftey concerns, then you should never drive a car, or fly. In fact you'd better not ever go anywhere. All railway administrations in those countries take safety very seriously indeed, but they differ in their approach to the primary versus secondary safety question. |
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