Posted by: what more December 2, 2005
Nepal Highway Accidents...any solid steps???
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what about the infrastruture side? i have heard the argument made again and again that our hilly terrain makes for poor, and inefficient road construction. there is the perennial danger of pahiro + the roads themselves are not "sturdy" (don't know how else to put it, me no engineer). how true is this? i mean, aren't there ways around it? maybe, it is too expensive? and while wholesale changes may not be possible at the moment, looking into the future one may think of many things. for starters, would it be less fatal if the roads were closer to the rivers than they currently are? would widening of the roads decrease these accidents substantially? how feasible (economically + structurally) is widening the roads? and lastly a bigger one: should we abandon the attempt to build roads altogether right now and focus on railroads? why don't we have railroads? [sorry for all these questions. just trying to sate my curiosity]
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