> I meant in terms of riders' perceptions of safety But that is what I am saying. The apples-to-apples comparision is “airplane with questionable/no brakes” vs

> I meant in terms of riders' perceptions of safety But that is what I am saying. The apples-to-apples comparision is “airplane with questionable/no brakes” vs “train with brakes”. There the “apple” is “as the thing is right now when you want to travel”. The proposed comparision with “train with no break” is not apples-to-apples because there are no breakless trains servicing the route. It is not a hypothetical comparision with some hypothetical train service and hypothetical planes. It is the comparision between the realworld situation on trains and airplanes right now. The discussion about industrial capacity just illustrates how this difference have happened.