Choo Choo!!!! (Railways in general)

Member Name: Stuart_frisby

Product:	Railways in general
Date:	03/03/01 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Reasonable cost!

Disadvantages: Accidents

The recent train accident was horrific and a major tradegy, my feelings go out to the families and friends of those injured.

The opinion that i am going to write is about the safety of the railways - all of them!

There are a lot of people who are saying that they do not trust the trains anymore - quite understandably i admitt. But has anyone looked at the figures of death caused by Transport accidents? If you have you may have realised that the trains are one of the safest way to travel!

I have heard people say that they would much rather drive than go by train but why exactly is this. I know that there has been 3 major crashes in the last three years but the amount killed is still lower than that killed on the roads!

So why Choose Cars?

In my opinion i wanted to get across that i am not on anybodys side and i do not want to hurt anybody's feelings but i can only think of two reasons why people would choose to travel by car rather than train after the recent problems

1) They would rather hold there own destiny!
2) They do not realise deaths are higher on roads!

1) This reason is that people - travellers have more faith in themselves as drivers than they do of the railways! This maybe a valid point and i tend to agree but there is always two sides to the story. When you consider how many accidents there are on the roads, eg cars and how many people are seriously hurt or die this is a much higher number than people hurt who travel on trains - remembering trains can hold a lot more people than one car!

2) Maybe people just do not realise that they may be in just as much danger driving a car as they are on a train!

I dont know what makes poeple decide which is safer and i would like to know what you think pls! In my opinion i would still travel by both because where do you draw the line? next nobody will be travelling by aeroplane because they have crashes once in a while!
r>Stuart