{"id":11105,"date":"2023-07-04T23:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11105"},"modified":"2023-07-04T23:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T23:44:01","slug":"the-deadly-train-collision-in-india-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11105","title":{"rendered":"The deadly train collision in India, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“India\u2019s<\/a> railway system was constructed in the 19th century, when the country was a British colony, and serves millions of people each day. Though it\u2019s an important part of the country\u2019s transit system, it has long suffered from underinvestment, and deadly, destructive accidents are not uncommon.”
…
“Modi\u2019s government has recently announced major spending<\/a> on the transit and railway systems, including high-speed, indigenously produced trains between major transit corridors. But many such upgrades are years away, require mountains of outside investment, and must wind through a labyrinthine government bureaucracy to take effect.”   
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“India\u2019s railway system is in some ways a marvel, in that it connects a massive country together, is an affordable mode of transportation<\/a> that serves 13 million people each day according to state-run Indian Railways, and connects India\u2019s large rural population to its urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The railway system also spurred economic growth after it was first introduced in 1853, because it could move commodities both internally and internationally far more quickly than traditional transportation. The economy<\/a> still depends on rail transportation, to an extent, though increased roadways and a large auto industry have increased Indians\u2019 auto-ownership from 115 million in 2009 to 295.8 million in 2019, according to a report from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, people all over the country depend on old, overcrowded trains for all aspects of life,despite the massive number of accidents and deaths that occur on India\u2019s more than 40,000 miles of railway<\/a>.”
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/6\/3\/23747817\/india-deadly-train-collision-crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“India\u2019s railway system was constructed in the 19th century, when the country was a British colony, and serves millions of people each day. Though it\u2019s an important part of the country\u2019s transit system, it has long suffered from underinvestment, and deadly, destructive accidents are not uncommon.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Modi\u2019s government has recently announced major spending on the transit and railway systems, including high-speed, indigenously produced trains between major transit corridors. But many such upgrades are years away, require mountains of outside investment, and must wind through a labyrinthine government bureaucracy to take effect.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“India\u2019s railway system is in some ways a marvel, in that it connects a massive country together, is an affordable mode of transportation that serves 13 million people each day according to state-run Indian Railways, and connects India\u2019s large rural population to its urban areas.
\nThe railway system also spurred economic growth after it was first introduced in 1853, because it could move commodities both internally and internationally far more quickly than traditional transportation. The economy still depends on rail transportation, to an extent, though increased roadways and a large auto industry have increased Indians\u2019 auto-ownership from 115 million in 2009 to 295.8 million in 2019, according to a report from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway Transport.<\/p>\n

Still, people all over the country depend on old, overcrowded trains for all aspects of life, despite the massive number of accidents and deaths that occur on India\u2019s more than 40,000 miles of railway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1844,1749,83],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crash","tag-disaster","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}