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News - Safety Row
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:10:58 +0000, Acrosticus wrote:
Oh dear! Expectations of safety on the tube have clearly fallen lower than many of us had imagined. At one time transport operators were eager not even to injure passengers, but now it seems the important thing is not killing them. Point is you're more likely to be run over by a bus on the walk to the tube then to be injured underground. 40 injuries this year? With about 80 million journeys? Thats a 1 in 2 million chance per year of being injured. In comparrison you have about a 1 in 100,000 chance - 20 times more likely - of a major injury at work (HSE figures 2000/1) A bit of perspective would be nice. I'd rather they spent the money on building new lines, or quadrupling (overnight running, more peak trains, longer maintenence periods, route around broken trains etc). |
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