ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[plam]

Yeah, I have a feeling that some railway regulations are pretty bullshit, I mean, we have our own railway requirements that basically produce more expensive, less safe trains than in Europe, just because that's the way it's always been done here.

But ultimately, I don't know how you end up with regulations like for airplanes, which seem to be largely well designed and evidence based. For ground transit, we have train regulation and car regulations both of which seem to be an abject failure, one because it kills enormous numbers of people, the other because it kills enormous numbers of people by forcing people into the other mode.

I might suggest some regulatory capture. Usually a good bet.