Re: XPT of Rails at Wodonga Vic Wed 25/4?

["Brendan" <nadnerb_2000@nospam.start.com.au>]

Yeah I saw that report:

Taxis came 6th
Pedestrians 5th
Cars 4th
Trains 3rd
Busses 2nd
Air 1st

That was some 10 years ago though, it would have changed since.
Unfortunately there have been a number of bus crashes over the last few
years, as well as train crashes (relatively few fatalities though).

Still this covers ALL travel - I wonder what SEPERATE figures for short/long
distance would be? Car % wouldnt change much, but rail deaths tend to happen
in metro areas, whereas bus crashes tend to happen in the country (just an
observation, correct me if I'm wrong). Airlines undisputedly are the safest
(despite media reports).

As for that person who said he is never going on the XPT again, well, that
starts up the whole "you can be killed by anything" debate again. Please,
no!!!

Brendan



"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> When the Industry Commission (or was it the Productivity Commission?)
> undertook its review of Australian transport (can't even remember the
actual
> scope of the report) at the beginning of the last decade it apparently
made a
> comment in its report that even in the worst year of bus crashes
(including
> Clybucca Flat [Kempsey] and Cowper [Grafton]) bus was still a safer from
of
> transport than rail.  While I picked up the appendix to this report I
never
> obtained the main report as they had distributed all copies and there were
no
> reprints.
>
> I always wanted to know:
> Were these passenger fatalities only (or also incidents such as the death
of
> the 5 youths near Wagga Wagga);
> How did the figures account for suicides (excluded?);
> What was the measure, fatalities/passenger, fatalities/billion passenger
km or
> what;
> And any other factors accounted for.
> Does anyone know?
>
> As a consequence of this report the Bus and Coach Association placed a
line on
> the bottom of their association sticker, usually affixed to bus/coach
> windscreens, that reads (from memory) "Bus and coach, Australia's safest
form
> of land transport".
>
> Chris
>
> Dave Proctor <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
> M1vG6.25676$8j.3639354@bin1.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com">news:M1vG6.25676$8j.3639354@bin1.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> > "John MacCallum" <engineman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > 3AE9E35D.8030907@ozemail.com.au">news:3AE9E35D.8030907@ozemail.com.au...
> > > Oh shit yeah I'd rather go by Bus! Buses are a hell of a lot safer.
> >
> > Can you say "Grafton" or "Kempsey"? Can you also compare the number of
> > people killed whilst travelling as passengers on trains with the numbers
> > killed whilst travelling as passengers on the roads?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
>