Posted June 26, 200915 yr Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 The Metro Crash: A Nation's Aging Transit System By Bryan Walsh Time Magazine Investigators are still sorting through the wreckage of Monday's crash of two Metro rail cars in Washington, D.C., the deadliest in the system's 33-year history, which killed nine people and injured scores of others. Federal officials said on Tuesday that the train that rear-ended another was an older model that lacked equipment that might have helped avert the collision and, according to the Washington Post, had been overdue for needed brake work. To see more, click link Find this article at: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1907095,00.html
June 26, 200915 yr While I agree many transit systems are aging and underfunded, it's extremely rare that anyone is put in harms way because of it. Deaths on mass transit in the US are rare enough as it is, and deaths that were caused by faulty equiptment rather than operator error are even more rare.
June 26, 200915 yr No but neglect does result in poorer service quality, reduced efficiency and, if neglected long enough, service cutbacks or eliminations. It's death by 1,000 cuts. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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