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Q: Will you still catch trains after the two recent accidents?
In the last few days there has been another train accident, this time in the Shanghai subway. Thankfully there were no deaths, but having this accident following so close behind the Wenzhou high-speed train crash that occured in July, has this given you second thoughts about rail travel. I am a bit of a fan of rail travel and work in an area of rail transport that heavily involves me in safety of track maintenance and construction. These accidents apear to both be the result of signal failure and while signalling is not my area of expertise I have more that a fundamental undestanding of it;'s pricipals. I know this type of accident makes people concerned about safety and rightly so, but train crashes always make headlines due to the rareity of occurance and spectacular images of the damage they can do. I hope the the Chinese railways learn and grow from these experiences and as a result I will still use trains as my personal preference for travel. Will you or has this changed your preference.
12 years 29 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
yes i would. would you walk the streets again after a car run someone over?
woody:
Totaly agree with you Fritze, but people take road accidents for granted almost as if they are a fact of life. I have read a lot of stories about how train patronage has dropped after the high speed crash and I was wondering why people react that way rather than your logical approach.
I took one this morning, hey it's China, everyday is a crap shoot, besides... Who wants to live forever?
woody:
I am with you on that one. No need to take crazy risks but hell you gotta live your life and get what you can out of what you have left of it.
DaBen:
Yeah trains, plane, car, bike, hell even walking it potential death around here. Everyone just stop worrying and enjoy what life you have left.
Woody, yes also the last plane crash.... even i was feeling uncomfortable, and said to myself..life goes on.
Some people just wont fly or take a train after something like this
No one can guarantee he/she can survive one more day...
Life is short...
Is 2012 the end of world? I don't know. My death will be the end of world for me...
thedude:
Really..2012...really? Wonder why the government let that movie slip through? Biggest pile of horse shit out there...but as they say in America...keep them stupid, poor and scared they will buy whatever you sell them!!
wenna7:
I don‘t know if there is anyone care about 2012, but I don't...
I won't trave the trains after the accident I saw in the washroom.
there no more choices for ordianry people, airplane too expensive and bus more dangerous than train. 
Trains are often the only effective way to travel, especially inter-small-city Hey, the SH Metro shunt was pretty trivial, the fact that most passengers don't have seats or hold hanging straps makes it worse.
The Chinese rail network was somewhat rushed into development. A great deal of money was thrown at the railways and as we know, some of it went o the railways, some of it went other places, like Switzerland perhaps.
Again, as we say, the devil is in the details. It's a quality control issue not a development issue. The product looks beautiful and rides well and travels quickly but a great deal more attention should be paid to the details.
