Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Shinkansen service resumes 10 hours after maintenance train derails



Shinkasen bullet train in Osaka, the western city of Japan, were restored 10 hours after crash with other train, affecting about 60,000 people including foreigner traveler. This is the biggest news in Japan today.

The service between Osaka and Himeji stations resume at 2:30 pm. After the first shinkasen had been fixed. Therefore, it made some shinkasen station resumed again. However, a total of 85 trains on the Osaka line and Tokaido line, the line that connects Tokyo with Osaka, still cannot restore, and this is the main line for Osaka.


Tatsuya Mano, a JR west official in charge of shinkansen administration came out for apologized by saying,” We are very sorry that we have caused a situation in which the train did not run from the morning at a time when many people are traveling during the summer holidays.’‘

In my opinion, there are many people that got affect from this situation. This situation is not what people would ask for, I know that no one would ever wanted this to happen. However, Government is trying so hard to fix this problem as soon as possible. People can make sure that everything will back to normal soon. I'm hoping that Japan's railway service will provide more of security system to prevent this kind of situation because there are many people depend on them.

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