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Just you wait.. one terrorist scare in a downtown city, and we'll be doing the shoes-off hokey-pokey to board trains, too :(
by mmt 17y ago
Just you wait.. one terrorist scare in a downtown city, and we'll be doing the shoes-off hokey-pokey to board trains, too :(
- stse 17y agoThe fear of a terrorist attack isn't really a reason not to do things. And it's not like it hasn't happened before, remember the madrid (commuter train) and london (subway) bombings?
- anamax 17y agoIt hasn't happened before in the US....
- yosh 17y agoFor Eurostar (Paris<->London) there's a security checkpoint with x-ray and metal detector too. No shoes-off, but you don't have to do that for air travel in Europe either. I guess they're paranoid about the Chunnel... The legroom on a standard Eurostar seat isn't any better than a plane either. The Shinkansen, however, really is the gold standard for train travel in the world still: fast, convenient (no security), and frequent.