12 people a day found dead on tracks in Bombay

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Fred Stiening

India’s plan to fix its rail system

Throw the US borders wide open and this is our future

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6 Responses to 12 people a day found dead on tracks in Bombay

  1. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    February 26, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    Sooner than that- we are already “investing” billions in this 1800s technology…. why don’t we reopen the Erie Canal just for *hits and giggles? 🙂

    • Art Stone says:
      February 26, 2013 at 7:26 pm

      Let’s call it a Green Highway

      If you peruse videos of trains in India, there seems to be an indifference to death. People randomly walk in front of trains and pretend they’re not there.

      Part of the problem is the rail system was built by the English, with their cultural deidication to engineering, discipline and maintaining order. When India kicked out the British in 1947, Indians suddenly had to become “the man” when for generations the populace had resisted and resented authority.

      Their railroads fell into disrepair – India aligned with Russia during the Cold War and the Socialists took over the rail system. Employing people was more important than efficiency. Like South Africa, the rail system wanted to not rely on oil, so steam locomotives lasted until 1985. India wanted to produce all their own equipment. India preserved the concept of various classes of service with separate cars and strict separation. The poor people from the lower classes ride packed like sardines, on top of cars, in between cars, hanging on the outside of the cars.

      The Indian people we Americans come in contact with are people from the upper classes, not the typical Indian. When our creditors pull the plug and demand their $14 trillion, today’s immigration waves will pale to what is coming next

  2. polokfla says:
    February 27, 2013 at 10:31 am

    Throw the US borders wide open and this is our future

    Borders? Borders? We don’t need no stinkin borders!-BHO
    Hell turn em all loose!
    Didn’t Saddam do the same thing when confronted?

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