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Friday, July 26, 2013

No Dancers in Rail Disaster

And one of the braggarts of the Rail was telling me of the capabilities of the Rail getting from Kapolei to Honolulu in 5 minutes. Hey Hey Hey. Forget the people, we are talking big bucks and visions of grandeur.

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there are pains
taken to bring it to light."

Paris Rail crash

At least six people have died and over a hundred were injured when a packed French intercity train derailed and crashed at high speed into a station outside Paris on July 6. The French railway company SNCF said the train travelling from Paris to Limoges was carrying 385 passengers when it derailed at 5.15 pm on Friday at Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne, 20km south of Paris.Four of the trains seven carriages ploughed into a crowded platform at rush hour on one of the busiest days of the year for holiday getaways.



Security services have been working on the wreckage where passengers are believed to be trapped in mangled carriages, which were lying on their side.The French president François Hollande, visiting the scene, said six people were killed and 22 were seriously injured, including one who was in a critical condition. The prefect's office in Essonne said a total of 180 people were injured. Hollande said three inquiries had been launched into what caused the derailment.

Michael Lesaunier, the owner of a cafe beside the busy suburban station told iTele: "The train approached very, very fast, knocking out everything in its path. It was rush hour, the platform was full."

When it happens in Honolulu, and they cannot avoid it, there will be many more deaths and injuries for it is going to fall on a lot of people. And it is going to cost us Billions and Billions of dollars to tear it down again.


"And I coulda got it right around the corner where I always did."



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