Wolmar Says: Safety, the hidden success story

Christian Wolmar

04 September 2012

One of the unheralded successes of recent years has been the massive progress on transport safety. On the railways, there has been just one passenger death in an accident in the past decade. Whereas even as recently as in the 1970s and 1980s, there were several fatal crashes each year, routinely nowadays there are none.

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