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I was curious and decided to map possible escape routes. He's pretty close to a 4/5/6, an R/W, a J/Z, and maybe a 1 train. That puts him at about 25 minutes fr
by murph-almighty 8y ago
I was curious and decided to map possible escape routes.
He's pretty close to a 4/5/6, an R/W, a J/Z, and maybe a 1 train. That puts him at about 25 minutes from NY Penn, which allows him access to Amtrak or the LIRR.
He's about an hour by public transport from LGA, but that would require a bus. The fastest route to JFK would be 1h11m if he took the A (which isn't all that close) followed by an airtrain. If he chose Newark Airport it'd be something like 25 minutes to NY Penn station + 25 minutes to Newark Penn station and maybe another 10 minutes to Newark Airport via NJ Transit, so about an hour. In other words, from escape to the front door of the airport he's looking at at least an hour of commute, by which point I'd hope someone noticed he's missing.
This all, of course, assumes he takes public transport.
- ElzeardBouffier 8y agoAll those options are well camera'd and connected to real-time facial recognition for anti-terrorism.
- murph-almighty 8y agoI agree that they're probably camera'd but I don't think we have real-time facial recognition going on yet. It's probably also worth noting that El Chapo isn't going to just run around the city without modifying his appearance somehow.
- londons_explore 8y agoI think he'd have a helicopter pick him up, and take him a couple of miles to be transferred to a supersonic jet. That jet would take him 100 miles into the atlantic and he and an accomplice parachute out with a liferaft and little engine. The plane carries on to mexico as a decoy. Radars aren't good enough to see small craft far from the shore in the ocean, so he can stay at sea as long as he likes and land anywhere. The search area would be huge - if we can't find MH370, we can't find him!