Re: what was the stuff up on city rail today 04.02.00

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

have you ever  travelled on a  japanese railway? then you will know what I mean

Regards

Chris

neumannc wrote:

> chris@enet21.com.au wrote:
> >
> > Who is responsible for track these days?. I hate to think what will happen
> > during the Olympics. Then we will realise that we  have nearly a 3rd world
> > class system. The govt. should sack senior management and get the Japanese or
> > Germans to manage it.
> >
> >
> But they don't speak english! (Even though we all know a significant
> number of Japanese and Germans do).  What would they know about running
> a railway, after all they have never worked for British Railways and
> that is where we get our independent experts from when we have a signal
> problem or safety question to be glossed over.
>
> Besides look how good British rail is now that the Thatcher reforms are
> becoming effective and compare the super efficient British high speed
> rail (180 kph) with Japan and Germany (300+ kph).
>
> Chris