Rail tracks should have been improved rather than spending money on Bullet Train, says Mayawati

[AndrewJin]

What kind of gap?

I mean increasing the height of the platforms so that there is nearly no height difference between platforms and doors of trains.
It is one of the safe measures in modern railway stations.

 

[Dungeness]

This lady, I don't know who she is and why high-caste RSSers hate her so much, made quite some valid points from the railway technology perspective.

HSR and upgrading existing railways are two projects. Do they even know 300km/h HSRs from China/Japan/France/Germany use standard tracks while most Indian railways use broad-gauge tracks?

She is right about the priority of Indian railway. They need to invest tens of billions of dollars to fix the old system which is the number one transport menthod for millions of Indians especially those from the lower class. Upgrading tracks and replacing old coaches, building tunnels/bridges to replace railway crossings, heighten the platforms to reduce the gap....

If most of them have not gauged the severity of the problem, such deadly accident will just happen again and again.

Every time, just comment "R.I.P", does that phrase really help?

For many of them here, railway accidents are part of life just like tornado, earthquakes or other nature disasters, not worth even raising their eyebrows. Just imagine the railway accident like this magnitude happened in China, PM would drop everything and rush there in the matter of hour. The whole cyber space would be filled with angry and demand for accountability.

With obedient masses, they can easily find their own social equilibrium.