These petitioners are a complete joke of human intelligence. Will reducing train speeds at only night solve the problems of animals being run over by trains ??
Instead of suggesting such stupid measures they should have suggested building some strong walls near the sensitive areas and construction of underpasses for animals crossings at regular intervals.
And why always target railways what about animals being ran over by road vehicles. I see cats dogs cows and snakes being ran over over by rash drivers everyday no one asks for speed limts there why...
more... only Railways ??
Clearly these seem to be attempts by the lobby of bus operators who are literally scared looking the progress SWR is making in terms of doubling and electrification works.
I think it's time now Railways themselves take up the issue of animals being ran over and do something positive like construction of strong barriers around the tracks and underpasses for animals to cross safely. I think Railways should have developed such measures long back when such incidents were regularly reported in Assam.
Strong economic development with environment protection should be the way and not environment protection at the cost of halting development.