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

["Nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

The japanese system in my opinion is the best in the world. I have also
heard that learning english is compulsory in Japanese schools.

The real great thing about their system is that a 7 point earthquake could
happen and the railway will be perating again in a flash. The ground there
tremours every few weeks, but the maintenance happens every night.

Brendan

<chris@enet21.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
>