• mabeledo@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Where do you live, that trains don’t have windows or doors that can be opened, and these incidents happen so frequently? Because this is not at all my experience in Western Europe.

    Regardless, it is a fact that cars break down more frequently and remediations take longer.

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        Then that’s impossible because I know for a fact that long distance trains have windows. But also, RENFE incident dataset is publicly available and updated in real time, and there is no way in hell the number of reported incidents is higher than the overall number of broken cars, not even if we were to average by number of passengers, and especially given the fact that the average car fleet age in Spain is 14 years.

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          10 hours ago

          Then that’s impossible because I know for a fact that long distance trains have windows.

          You’re right. You can totally open windows in long distance trains:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewmQjcY3Rc

          But I never said trains break more often than cars, no idea where you took that from. I was saying that if your car breaks down on a highway you will be able to open a window, get out and you will wait for less time to be picked up. I really don’t think it’s difficult to understand.

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            10 hours ago

            Never took an Avlo before. But to be fair, they still have doors.

            Also, this is not standard procedure, not in my experience. It’s the crew’s responsibility to keep passengers safe. If the controllers or the drivers refused to manually override door locks, which is a thing, then they should be admonished or charged accordingly.