BY JAMES T. AREDDY
SHANGHAI?Flawed equipment and procedures as well as corruption were the main culprits in a Chinese bullet-train collision this year, the government said, conceding that its rail-network expansion has gone too fast.
Delivering the results of the investigation into July's Wenzhou high-speed collision, Premier Wen Jiabao's cabinet, the State Council, cited poorly designed track-signal equipment that got knocked out by lightning strikes as well as inadequate safety procedures.
The report said subsequent inspection of China's lines turned up more than 50 installations of a little-tested and problematic signal mechanism that failed in Wenzhou. It called into question how the signal contracts ...
BY JAMES T. AREDDY
SHANGHAI?Flawed equipment and procedures as well as corruption were the main culprits in a Chinese bullet-train collision this year, the government said, conceding that its rail-network expansion has gone too fast.
Delivering the results of the investigation into July's Wenzhou high-speed collision, Premier Wen Jiabao's cabinet, the State Council, cited poorly designed track-signal equipment that got knocked out by lightning strikes as well as inadequate safety procedures.
The report said subsequent inspection of China's lines turned up more than 50 installations of a little-tested and problematic signal mechanism that failed in Wenzhou. It called into question how the signal contracts ...
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577126121683353312.html?mod=rss_about_china
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