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> The track had been inspected very recently. Maybe the inspection standards are inadequate? Spanish officials are very good at deflecting blame and playing po
by imiric 9mo ago
> The track had been inspected very recently. Maybe the inspection standards are inadequate?
Spanish officials are very good at deflecting blame and playing politics. Nobody wants to be held accountable for a catastrophe. Also see the 2024 floods in Valencia; a partially preventable tragedy, followed by a whole lot of mud slinging, but zero accountability.
So while inspection standards might be inadequate, I would take anything a senior official says with a pound of salt.
- db48x 9mo agoBut he is correct. If you have a large enough budget for new construction it can make any maintenance expenditure look tiny. The right figures to compare are normalized by length and age of track, not percentages of the total budget.
- raverbashing 9mo ago> 2024 floods in Valencia; a partially preventable tragedy, followed by a whole lot of mud slinging sigh Of course you're right