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For this case I would assume it's the security concerns that go with a publicly-accessible subway line directly under the building.
by crooked-v 3y ago
For this case I would assume it's the security concerns that go with a publicly-accessible subway line directly under the building.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThis was in the ‘60s when there were significantly less security issues. There’s still a fairly large train station complex underneath the World Trade Center.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoProbably not in 1960—Russian nukes would come from the sky. Also the Capitol already has a few tunnels underground.
- ta1243 3y agoCities like London and Madrid actually have had bombs on trains. It's not a "security threat" to buildings above. What is a security threat to infrastructure are roads, where you can drive massive vehicles into people, transport and explode bombs, etc. The Manchester bombing for example was a truck exploding parked on a public road.
- cowsandmilk 3y agoIf it was security, those concerns certainly weren’t shared at the Pentagon where the Metro entrance and exit were into the building for decades.