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The Forbes headline is a little misleading. The US failed to sign up to a declaration. But the declaration went beyond road safety and included things you are unsurprised the US wouldn’t sign up to. They say they agree with the true road safety aspects. Nevertheless the US, as an average whole, has the highest road death rate in the OECD. There is also large variation between individual US states: many of them are at level you would expect in a country of only medium development. I suspect that most of the relevant actions lie at state level and federal authority has relatively little influence over it.
The Kolkata East-West Line inauguration article looks rather like some lazy journo printed someone’s press release, without trying to find out what it wasn’t saying. The key function of the East-West Line, as the name implies, is to connect East and West, in particular crossing the river Hooghly, which has distinctly limited crossing capacity. But only the eastern end section of the line has opened. Astonishingly there is no allusion whatever to the major disaster in the western end of the line, the tunnel collapse in the tunnel under construction last September. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/18-buildings-damaged-as-kolkata-metro-tunnel-borer-hits-aquifer/articleshow/70940550.cms There is some good news on that: tunnel boring restarted in mid Feb. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/e-w-metro-tunnelling-resumes-at-bowbazar-170-days-after-disaster/articleshow/74199127.cms Maybe this is why they can now state a 2022 completion date with some confidence. But it would be nice to know that they are thinking about that.