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This is why I can't support high speed rail enough. You get from downtown nyc to Washington dc without having your human rights violated. And its faster too.
by spinlock 10y ago
This is why I can't support high speed rail enough. You get from downtown nyc to Washington dc without having your human rights violated. And its faster too.
- nitrogen 10y agoIIRC the TSA occasionally sets up airport style security checkpoints at train exits. A search of HN should show some examples.
- mikemac 10y agoBoston police (or transit police) does this randomly on the MBTA train system.
- op00to 10y agoVIPR is what you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_and_Response_team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_... It's not exactly airport style - at least in NYC and Philly they swab you for explosives and check your ID. No X-Ray or nude-o-scope. You're free to not go through the checkpoint (but you won't board your train).
- tlrobinson 10y agoWhat makes you think they wouldn't institute similar TSA-style [1] security on a shiny new high-profile high speed rail? 1. Or literally the TSA: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyond-airport-security.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyo...
- jdavis703 10y agoRight, Spain already does this. And I've during high-profile events I've seen TSA patrolling the main subway stations in Washington, DC.
- wutbrodo 10y agoI've been travelling all around Spain for the last month and I wouldn't characterize the Renfe/AVE security as anywhere near the TSAs. You basically just put your bags through a machine and get waved through, and I've yet to wait in much of a line.
- mpeg 10y agoYeah, same thing for the Eurostar, it's a much saner security and check-in process. As much as I love flying, I always take the train from London to Paris or between Madrid and Barcelona.
- ojm 10y agoI nearly lost a pocketknife when my suitcase was x-rayed at a Spanish train station. Our small satchel bags and bodies did not get x-rayed, but the large suitcases did. I forgot I had a pocketknife in there (as it's fine usually for airport security as a check in bag). Somehow, when my suitcase got scanned, they mixed up the order and the person behind me got stopped for having a knife. By that time, I was making a quick getaway to the platform as I didn't want to lose the knife. I could have just had a knife (and bomb?) in my satchel bag, so was pretty confused by the whole x-ray suitcases only situation.
- monksy 10y agoThey've pulled this before in the commuter train station in Chicago.
- santaclaus 10y agoEhhh, I once had the contents of my backpack dumped all over a train station floor by the NYPD while leaving the LIRR.