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minus-squarebleistift2linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoEverybody gives the German rail flak for being late all the time and for 100 years-old technology and lacking personnel. But rail crashes are really rare. You gotta give them that. The switches may be operated by hand, but they’re safe.
minus-squareBlastboom Strice@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 months ago The switches may be operated by hand, but they’re safe. Yeah, about that, check what happened in Greece a year ago (~60 people dead and the government still tries hard to interfere with justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash (I’m mentioning Greece, because I think our rails don’t have many fail-safes and are kinda manually operated.)
Everybody gives the German rail flak for being late all the time and for 100 years-old technology and lacking personnel. But rail crashes are really rare. You gotta give them that. The switches may be operated by hand, but they’re safe.
Yeah, about that, check what happened in Greece a year ago (~60 people dead and the government still tries hard to interfere with justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash
(I’m mentioning Greece, because I think our rails don’t have many fail-safes and are kinda manually operated.)