Re: Rail + Safety Records

["Robd" <robd74@hotmail.com>]

I ws privy to a meeting of our national rail authorities, where a rather
important individual noted that, having to fork out comphensation for about
30 deaths a year was cheaper than investing money into the signalling and
communication system to make it almost idiot proof.

Rob
David Martin <d_martin@mountains.net.au> wrote in message
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> Robd <robd74@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Working in the Rail Safety Industry myself, I would have to say that
every
> > system is as good as the money you spend on it. Or in other words,
> somewhere
> > in  probably every rail organisation there is an accountant drawing up
the
> > budgets for area's without any technical know how or input. So I guess
> > anything that has anything to do with the government these days is
> probably
> > extremely risky.
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
>
> Only government?
> Private enterprise, traditionally, has been the one guilty of cutting
> corners to maximise profit. Government, traditionally, spent the money to
do
> it right. Then came economic rationalism, demands to slash government
> expenditure, and bring in the efficiency of private enterprise.
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> David
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