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3 people in Madhya Pradesh, India, died while stuck in a THIRTY TWO hour traffic jam along an intercity highway. (www.bhaskarenglish.in)

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The highway in question is cratered with potholes due to shoddy, cut-rate roadwork that disintegrates at the first sign of inclement weather.

The worst part? There's a train between those same two cities, but the state of the railways in this country is beyond the pale, ironically because the government is pretending to invest in shiny new roads that...are cratered with potholes and disintegrate at the first sign of inclement weather.

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

The current government isn't focusing on the trains ordinary people need (local trains with lots of unreserved compartments), because these are subsidized and run at a loss. They are running IR like a private company, trying to build vanity projects and put out more luxury trains with surge pricing so they can make money. Also replacing historic stations with crimes against architecture.

Mamata Banerjee ran the rail ministry for five years without raising the ticket price by one rupee, and she's, well, Mamata Banerjee. How come the current geniuses can't do this?