NEW DELHI - The technology used to run New Delhi's shiny new metro system is so advanced there is no possibility of a train wreck like those that afflict Indian Railways, the chief of the project claimed Thursday.
| This from the country that can't maintain a MiG-21. |
"The best insurance against accidents is technology itself," E. Sreedharan, managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corp., said ahead of Sunday's opening of the first underground metro stretch by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "We have the most advanced signalling and operational philosophy. There is no chance of any type of collision," Sreedharan told reporters.
| I think I'll call a taxi. They're much safer. |
His remarks come after 38 people died Tuesday in a head-on train collision in the north Indian state of Punjab because of a failure to coordinate traffic on a single railway line.| "If you make something idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot." |
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