{"id":13661,"date":"2012-02-21T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13661"},"modified":"2012-02-21T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:37:52","slug":"death-on-the-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/death-on-the-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Death on the railways"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t realize the extent of the problem<\/a> in India, as reported in the Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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About 15,000 people are killed each year while crossing the tracks on India’s mammoth railway network, according to a government safety panel that recommended more bridges and overpasses should be built as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n

Most of the deaths occur at unmanned railroad crossings, the panel said in a report. About 6,000 people die on Mumbai’s crowded suburban rail network alone, it said.<\/p>\n

Another 1,000 people die when they fall from crowded coaches, when trains collide or coaches derail.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The committee blamed railway authorities for the “grim picture”, saying there were lax safety standards and poor management.<\/p>\n

It said local managers were not given adequate power to make crucial decisions and that safety regulations were also breached because of severe manpower shortages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It does seem odd that one of the world’s most populous countries — once known for chronic over-staffing of government and government-owned organizations — has “manpower shortages” in this critical area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t realize the extent of the problem in India, as reported in the Guardian: About 15,000 people are killed each year while crossing the tracks on India’s mammoth railway network, according to a government safety panel that recommended more bridges and overpasses should be built as a matter of urgency. Most of the deaths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,23,237],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-13661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-india","category-railways","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13662,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}