Money. Most goods need to be on schedule, not fast. More speed costs more money.
>These standards were written in the blood of thousands of people who died or were severely maimed in accidents.
The standards were also written for a world who's conditions were very different from those of today.
I know that you can score easy virtue points by pretending like any rollback of regulation that is intended to protect something is a bad thing but let's be real here. With modern signaling infrastructure there's no reason that dedicated passenger rail can't be equally safe or safer than legacy passenger rail that has to be interoperable with legacy signaling systems and freight rail.
Money. Most goods need to be on schedule, not fast. More speed costs more money.
>These standards were written in the blood of thousands of people who died or were severely maimed in accidents.
The standards were also written for a world who's conditions were very different from those of today.
I know that you can score easy virtue points by pretending like any rollback of regulation that is intended to protect something is a bad thing but let's be real here. With modern signaling infrastructure there's no reason that dedicated passenger rail can't be equally safe or safer than legacy passenger rail that has to be interoperable with legacy signaling systems and freight rail.