furnessvale
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Everything has its price. Sadly that also includes human life. We have now gone past the stage where railways are able to compete with roads on price or reliabilty. Safety needs to be looked at holistically. Yes the railways are safe but for many unaffordable or cancelled for a variety of safety related reasons. So 95% (pre Covid) of passengers travel by road. How safe is that?But, by the same token, those detailed and painstaking investigations are the biggest reason why accidents are much less frequent now than they used to be.