Generic Post #857

Despite my love of all things dull and dreary, I thought I might do something a little different and share something I found to be both novel and interesting that I noticed in the English newspaper here in Japan, the Japan Times.

Not long ago, a train derailed in Japan when going around a curve at 50km/h over the 70km/h speed limit - killing over 100 people. In response to this, the train company have taken some measures to prevent this happening again - one of which is to reduce the speed limit to 60km/h - I find the logic of this decision baffling.