I heard yesterday that they've finished the investigation of Wenzhou high-speed train crash. Preliminary reports mentioned the failure of signaling system which lead to the collision. Now they only blame poor management.
But I've asked around – I have to ride these trains all the time so it would be nice to know just how much risk I'm taking – and they tell me that the company that supplied the signalling system has roughly 80% of Chinese market (both high-speed rail and subways) so no official would blame them as it may lead to the confirmation that high-ranking government officials took bribes to allow faulty systems to be installed on 80% of China's rail transport networks. So they'll just blame some railroad switch operator and sweep everything under the rug.
And you know the funny thing? The same system's installed in the Shanghai subway and they've had lots of problems with it. No fatalities as of yet, but hundreds of injuries in the accident in September which was disturbingly similar to the one in Wenzhou...
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