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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 10:49 pm
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Originally Posted by acunningham
Japan has been running the Shinkansen system since the 1960s in a very active earthquake zone. 7 billion passengers later, the number fatalities due to collisions and derailments stands at zero. If done correctly, high speed rail can be extremely safe even in earthquake zones.
Then I would hope we are going to use their UrEDAS system to prevent derailments during earthquakes.

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