Lot of people asking me about this train crash in Washington--here's what's on my mind... In 2005 there was a dreadful train crash in Amagasaki, Japan. A staggering 107 people died when a train derailed into an apartment building.
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...but that's kind of beside the point, which is that we have an unacceptable number of "background fatalities" happening every year on our railways which nobody bats an eye at. Huge, newsworthy crashes are bound to happen occasionally--but there's no excuse for the rest!
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I suppose we're just a bit desensitized by the incredible amount of carnage that goes down on our roads every year--what's a dozen dead in a train crash every year, compared to 40,000 dead in car crashes? But that's just an explanation--it is not an excuse!
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Do you know what the per-rider or per-capita spending is on rail in the US vs Japan?
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No, but I know that in Japan very little is thru taxpayers
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Tends to be an important factor
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If it was human error, positive train control may have prevented it in this instance. But too soon to tell.
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except with proper controls, human error goes away
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