Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by imiric on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:10PM (#46759601)

> 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.

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by db48x on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:22PM (#46761848)

But 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.

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by raverbashing on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:49AM (#46762585)

> 2024 floods in Valencia; a partially preventable tragedy, followed by a whole lot of mud slinging

sigh

Of course you're right

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