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> I recently saw that Canadian passenger railways have security checks and bag check-in just like airlines :-)) It's probably harder to drive a train into some
by JadeNB 1y ago
> I recently saw that Canadian passenger railways have security checks and bag check-in just like airlines :-))
It's probably harder to drive a train into something than it is to fly a plane into something, but a bomb on a train could do a lot of damage even if it wasn't as cinematic as a bomb on a plane. And, having traveled on Amtrak and seen what people try to cram in to the limited space available, it's not clear to me that some sort of baggage control is automatically a bad thing.
(Don't get me wrong, I like not having to go through those airport-style controls, but it's a tragedy of the commons sort of thing, where abuse of it by a few renders it unpleasant for everyone.)
- oblio 1y ago> but a bomb on a train could do a lot of damage even if it wasn't as cinematic as a bomb on a plane Same for a bus, tram, funicular, metro, ferry. At what point does the insanity stop? A crowded bus in Bucharest probably has 200 passengers and at peak times it could drive near stops and streets where hundreds, if not thousands of other people, are in a 100m radius.
- arccy 1y agoyou could be like india where even going to the metro requires a bag scan
- bluGill 1y agoMetro, the mall, your hotel room. India has terrorism problems. I wonder how much / if this helps. (India also has a lot of cheap labor and this might just be a jobs program for attendants of the machines)
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoThe rails are also a target though. I'm surprised we don't see more bad actors sabotaging high speed passenger rail tracks.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoThink what a bomb on a freeway bridge would do. Clearly need to grope everyone before they get in their car.
- supertrope 1y agoTraffic fatalities are like 10 9/11s a year. Think of the children!
- tim333 1y agoOf course that happened with the Crimea bridge but seems less of a problem elsewhere.
- supertrope 1y agoIn 2020 a train engineer intentionally drove a train off the end of the tracks because he believed a Covid-19 conspiracy theory about a nearby hospital ship. https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/san-pedro-train-engineer-pleads-guilty-terrorism-charge-intentionally-derailing https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/san-pedro-train-enginee...
- BobaFloutist 1y agoOk, but that's 1. More like if the pilot of a plane lost his mind, which all the horses and men in TSA couldn't fix, and, 2. He didn't exactly drive it into the Pentagon, did he?