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Re: We are letting the terrorists win
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:32:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
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> > I will be getting on planes this Autumn - several of them. But I admit to • being
> > a little bit nervous flying out of Baltimore.
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> Interesting a lot of people are nervous (understandably) about flying in
> planes, but no-ones mentioned other mass-transit (buses, trains) which could be
> used with fair efficiency (even if maybe not quite so spectacular) for similar
> terrorist tasks. Has there been talk of enhanced security for bus & train
> travel?
Probably should be. See this article which makes the point that if anything,
trains/buses are MORE vulnerable since you don't just have terminals and key
points to protect, you have miles and miles and miles of track (or road) and
there is a long history of very low tech sabotage of track going back as far
as the US Civil War. (or farther??)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-nadler101101.shtml
It also makes the point that rail subsidies in the US fail spectacularly
since they are spectacularly non-market-driven.
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| (...) being (...) Interesting a lot of people are nervous (understandably) about flying in planes, but no-ones mentioned other mass-transit (buses, trains) which could be used with fair efficiency (even if maybe not quite so spectacular) for similar (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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