Europeans, do you take the train to travel to other countries?
Europeans, do you take the train to travel to other countries?
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Please avoid trains in Greece. Last year about 60 people were killed (most I think were uni students), because we don't have almost any safety mechanisms.. There were two trains, one with passengers who took the last train and one on the opposite direction on the same track for ~10 ehole minutes before the collided..
The other train seems to had been carring illegal flammable oil or sonething that caused an explosion upon collision.
The goverment tried to cover up everything once it happened (they even poured cement on the collision point and removed debris "to clean the space", thus removing evidence), there were some (unifished) joke trials that lead almost nowhere (there might still be investigations) and most importantly, the people working on the trains say that there have been nearly zero improvements to the system. And they blamed it ~all on the single guy who managed the tracks/routes of the trains.
Another symptom of capitalism (the company which operates the trains is private for some years)..
Check this wikipedia article if you want to learn more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash (or search somewhere else).
It's sad because trains ~should be the future means of transportation, along with trams (only the capital city has tram I think)..
PS. On the other hand, I dont know how much less safe our trains are compared to boeing planes, hmm.
So you're saying the train company needs to be nationalised and the capitalist pigs running it into the ground while extracting profits for themselves tried & jailed?
Because that's what I am saying.
The governments need to be tried too (especially the current one, those people should probably be jailed for many many things they've done), but there are laws protecting them..
Taking a plane instead of a train because of lower accident risk seems pretty unethical given how incredibly polluting short-haul flights are. On any train, even in Greece, your chances of injury from accident are vanishingly small. Certainly far smaller than any kind of road transport, such as a bus.
Apart from safety reasons, it's a way of protesting against their actions (I know, there are other ways of protesting too, I took part in some of those as well).
Btw, I think it's more popular (and cheaper) to just get the bus than the plane, Greece isn't a big coutry.
Generally speaking they are probably safe since this may be the only deadly train accident I know of in Greece, but I can't trust my life to their ~unregulated-unmaintained systems and I don't want to support them financially, at least as long as they don't change and just try to cover up a mass murder.