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- From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Subject: Re: bullet train death
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.122814.5171@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:28:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.160035.27455@ulysses.att.com> <1992Nov19.233052.26035@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov19.233052.26035@Princeton.EDU>, ctillier@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clemens Emmanuel Tillier) writes:
- > Strange... At least in France, the high-speed ROW is flanked on both sides by
- > a fence and a ditch, so that it would be impossible to "run across a field
- > and onto the tracks"...
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- A later article noted that this line, the Yamagata Shinkansen, is
- considered by some to be prone to accidents, since it has ~80 ``road
- crossings''.
-
- Yah, that struck me as strange, too.
-