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2011-07-25 China-Japan-Koreas

China sacks officials after high-speed rail crash

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Posted by Fred 2011-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 IIRC China's much-ballyhooed HS COMMUTER RAIL has suffered three major incidents or crashes in less than a week, hence the sackings???

Reminds me of the US WILD/OLD WEST of the 19th Century, + the early probs encountered wid the widespread introduction of the "Iron Horse".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-25 00:29|| 2011-07-25 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Struck by lightning, you say? Isn't that one of those "stuff happens" things? Or are the electrical towers, etc. supposed to be grounded?

Or is lightning a mis-translation of 'evil spirits'?

In any event, the speed of the trains has little to do with the accident. Higher speeds just mean spacing the signals farther apart. But if the signal system is not protected from lightning ...

Posted by Bobby 2011-07-25 06:06|| 2011-07-25 06:06|| Front Page Top

#3 but news reports say they include kickbacks, bribes, illegal contracts and sexual liaisons

This is why The One is so fascinated by high speed rail. Boodle galore.

Posted by Matt 2011-07-25 11:19|| 2011-07-25 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 but news reports say they include kickbacks, bribes, illegal contracts and sexual liaisons

Par for the course in China.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-07-25 11:49|| 2011-07-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 18 mistresses. You know Bill Clinton is kicking himself at night muttering ~~Rosebud~~ High Speed Rail.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-25 12:14|| 2011-07-25 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 My favorite detail from the story is that each train was under a different bureaucracy, so they weren't communicating.

Um, shouldn't the TRACK be the point of management? Shouldn't whoever is in charge of the track be responsible for managing the flow of traffic?

Amazing how that particular responsibility simply falls out of a system of private ownership, but gets left out by central planners.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-07-25 12:24|| 2011-07-25 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Heard on the radio today, those two dead foreigners are Americans. What a shitty way to die.

Posted by gromky 2011-07-25 13:55|| 2011-07-25 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Heard on the radio today, those two dead foreigners are Americans. What a shitty way to die.

There is no good way to die. Maybe their relatives will derive some small comfort from the knowledge that they were helping to alpha test the Chinese high speed rail system. Or not.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-07-25 20:22|| 2011-07-25 20:22|| Front Page Top

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