{"id":559930,"date":"2023-03-03T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=559930"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T06:14:57","slug":"outrage-grows-as-greece-admits-failures-after-deadly-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/outrage-grows-as-greece-admits-failures-after-deadly-train-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage grows as Greece admits &#8216;failures&#8217; after deadly train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek government on Thursday (March 1) acknowledged failures in state management of its rail system, following a train collision that killed 48 and has triggered angry protests.<\/p>\n<p>As crews continued to work in the charred wreckage at the crash site, the local station master admitted negligence in Greece&#8217;s worst-ever rail disaster and the government has apologised.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation would examine the &#8220;chronic delays in implementing railway works, delays caused by chronic public sector malaise and decades of failure,&#8221; said government spokesman Yiannis Economou.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened late Tuesday (February 28) when a freight and passenger train were allowed to speed towards each other for several kilometres before colliding near a tunnel outside Larissa in central Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek government on Thursday (March 1) acknowledged failures in state management of its rail system, following a train collision that killed 48 and has triggered angry protests. As crews continued to work in the charred wreckage at the crash site, the local station master admitted negligence in Greece&#8217;s worst-ever rail disaster and the government has apologised. An investigation would examine the &#8220;chronic delays in implementing railway works, delays caused by chronic public sector malaise and decades of failure,&#8221; said government spokesman Yiannis Economou. The crash happened late Tuesday (February 28) when a freight and passenger train were allowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}