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And you travel from city center to city center, no security bullshit.

• newaccount2021 4y ago
  ...until the first "incident", after which rail will be subjected to the same measures as air travel
  • anticensor 4y ago
    You would get slightly more controls than airlines actually, due to the fact that trains are simply physically bound to rails.
  • Gare 4y ago
    Hard to hit two skyscrapers with a train. When it comes to railway terrorism, there are more effective infrastructure threats than some guy boarding a passenger train with an explosive.
  • schroeding 4y ago
    Trains were bombed to pieces in Madrid in 2004[1], and since then there were multiple cases of terrorism in european trains. There were incidents galore already, so let's be optimistic that travel by train will stay free of airport-like security. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings
    • kzrdude 4y ago
      And in Spain you have to enter your ID card # and other personal info for the ticket, and occasional security checks, for all the long distance trains. So the difference to Germany is noticeable due to this history!