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If they start doing security lines for passengers they'll destroy about the only nice thing Amtrak had going for it: being a basic travel option that doesn't in
by yeetsfromhellL2 4y ago
If they start doing security lines for passengers they'll destroy about the only nice thing Amtrak had going for it: being a basic travel option that doesn't involve too much trouble. It's already expensive, slow, and has limited scheduling. The only upshot is that you can walk up 5 minutes before a train pulls in, buy a ticket and hop on without having to take your clothes off and disembowel your luggage.
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- tonymet 4y agoI agree. These people have no sense for beauty, romance or joy. There's nothing quite like walking up to a classic train station like in Los Angeles or Santa Barbara and stepping right onto the train. I swear the authorities who come up with this garbage have been trapped in a fluorescent dungeon for too many decades and forgot what life is about
- hparadiz 4y agoThe really dumb thing is we only started doing security for airplanes because the airplane itself can be used as a missile to hit another target. A train can't be used to hurt a third party. If someone wanted to attack a train they wouldn't need to get onboard at all. Simply wait along the track in the middle of nowhere. The whole idea is pointless.
- rascul 4y ago> Simply wait along the track in the middle of nowhere. That seems to be a bit of a meme in plenty of western movies.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoThere was the attempt by a train engineer to hit the USNS Mercy when it was docked in New York Harbor to assist with COVID19 treatments. He missed by quite a bit of distance. Edit: Los Angeles, not New York.
- mwint 4y agoGot a link? Sounds interesting.
- mgkimsal 4y agohttps://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/02/825897966/train-engineer-says-he-crashed-in-attempt-to-attack-navy-hospital-ship-in-l-a https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... may be that story? that says LA though, not New York.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derails-usns-mercy-coronavirus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derai...
- legalcorrection 4y agoAll bureaucracies expand until stopped by an external force. Self-justification and perpetuation is in their very nature. Politically, if you're anti-TSA you're not only anti-safety and pro-terrorism, you're against jobs for veterans (in reality, the bottom tier of veterans with no marketable skills and personality problems that make them unemployable in the private sector).
- throwawayboise 4y agoI guess in theory you could run a train into the station at the end of the line, which was the plot of the action/comedy Silver Streak staring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.
- skeeter2020 4y agoI believe they found a VHS copy of that movie in bin Laden's hideout, so obviously this level of TSA overreach is warranted.
- JetAlone 4y agoPerhaps they've been deliberately trying to put the rest of us into more and more fluorescent dungeons because they want us to understand their pain.
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- 0xB31B1B 4y agoYea, this article isn't about that at all though. The article is about how the TSA has been crossreferencing amtrak passenger manifests with the do not fly list they maintain, and not letting people get on trains. This isn't about setting up security checkpoints.
- MerelyMortal 4y ago> this article isn't about that Thank you for reading the article. > This isn't about setting up security checkpoints. However, all I have to say is: "yet."