When two trains crash into each other, SO many other people are responsible before the big guy on top of the chain of command. Most people who've voiced their opinion so far were requesting the resignation of the Minister of Transportation; i hope they're satisfied now that he's resigned.
The way i see it is this: people appointed to high rank posts are not put there just to make sure the wheel is spinning in the way it should spin. They are there to smoothen the surface on which the wheel is running. They can only do their their best when the surface is not smooth. In real words, ministers are not merely supervisors of an already working system. They are supposed to be the correctors of glitches in the system. A tragic train crash is a major glitch in the system. Therefore, when something like that does happen, the minister should not be pushed to resigning. Him and his whole ministry should be up to their faces in the dirt trying to fix things.
It's the easiest thing in the world to make mistakes and have someone else fix them. I'm not implying the minister is right or wrong here; but we will never find out if he was capable of the job if he isn't given a chance to fix it. The best leaders emerge from problem solving, not from sitting at the sidelines dictating. Be it the transportation minister or any high ranking, low ranking, government, or private employee, people succeed with what they accomplish and their crisis management for crying out loud.
Everyone is normal until they do something extraordinary that makes them stand out, then they do another thing that's extraordinary and that makes them great. Then they do one bad thing (or in this case, they don't do a bad thing but a bad thing happens on their watch) and everyone forgets any good things they've done.
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