Safety first

This is also a sad reminder that people have started worrying about travel safety

With reference to Vinayak Chatterjee’s “Roads far more unsafe than railways” (September 11), the article has put together some very relevant information supporting the argument for improving road travel safety. While there can’t be two views on the urgency to do everything possible to make road journeys safe, one is tempted to think loudly that safety has to be the primary concern in any mode of travel. The railways, for example, are not able to make their trains less accident-prone by ensuring adequate renovation of tracks, signal systems and engines and bogies on an ongoing basis and having adequate manpower