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How Japan keeps its trains safe from earthquakes
Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...
Zero intensity is detected by seismometers but not perceptible to ... the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake that killed 46 and derailed a bullet train; the Kumamoto quake in 2016; the March 2011 quake ...
I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but ...
China and Japan have won the high-speed train race. With bullet trains crisscrossing the Asian supercontinent, it has made the grandfather of rail, the UK look as slow as the rocket. Why does the UK ...
While Trump lacks both the legal authority and practical means to kill California’s bullet train, he can certainly block its ...
on Wednesday gave a big update on the ongoing Bullet train project, also known as the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. The firm said a 100-metre-long steel girder has been successfully ...
President Donald Trump denounced California's bullet train and said his administration would investigate how federal dollars ...
President Trump seems more determined than ever to derail California’s high-speed rail project. Given its sorry history, it could be a mercy killing.
President Donald Trump denounced California’s bullet train for the project’s delays and rising costs on Tuesday, and said his administration would investigate how billions of federal and state ...
Rendering of a high-speed train in the Central Valley. (California High-Speed Rail Authority) During his comments to media this week, Trump called the project’s budget overruns the “worst ...
Brightline, which operates high-speed trains between Miami and Orlando, has been involved in 127 fatalities since launching in 2018 — making it the deadliest train per mile in the country.