Argentine trains still inspire fear a year after crash, with few fixes to aging system
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Revisiting the echoing terminal on a recent afternoon, Maria Lujan Rey said there’s one more thing that hasn’t changed since Feb. 22, 2012: The trains are still unsafe.She lost her 20-year-old son, Lucas Menghini, last year at Once, as the station is popularly known, when the lead car of a packed commuter train hit a shock-absorbing barrier and sent the next car crunching into it. The crash killed 51 people and injured 800 others, unleashing national outrage at the sorry state of the country’s Read more [...]