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According to random search result[0], there are ~800 annual suicides by train per year in Germany. For the number of lines in the country, that does not seem li

• lispm 3y ago
  If you have two of those each day, you'll get lots of network effects. Imagine a train track from Hamburg (where a lot of ICE trains are starting) to the south being delayed for two hours in the morning. That means a lot of effects since the train lines and train stations are often operating at the higher end of the capacity. For example recently two girls im my hometown were doing Tiktok videos for a challenge on a high-speed train track. One got killed and one barely survived. The whole track between Hamburg and Berlin was closed for hours. Whenever there are reports of people on the tracks, they need to be checked and trains are stopped.
• permo-w 3y ago
  I mean that is on average >2 lines per day, which doesn't sound like much, but how many people use a line per day? and I'm guessing suicides occur more often on busy lines, so it's significant still