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> Santiago de Compostela derailment

Hey that infrastructure looks perfectly fine and new, ahhh ok... they were going 180kmh where the speed limit was 80kmh..

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Which is also exactly how the most deadly rail incident in the past half century in japan happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment

We oftentimes take ridiculous risks to save only 1-5 minutes of our time. Although reading about the Spanish disaster, the driver was rather reckless.

Which is a problem that would have been prevented had they not purposefully disabled the ERTMS signaling system to avoid delays.

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