How to drive riders from a train station
1. Take one train station in the entire nationwide interurban network.
2. Make sure it's convenient to another station on the same line and to an interstate highway running next to the train line, so people can go elsewhere to avoid hassles.
3. Implement security measures that don't exist elsewhere on the system.
4. Rinse. Repeat.
The lack of an invasive security system is one of the factors making train travel in the northeast corridor faster than short-hop plane routes between many destinations. Turning tran stations into airports will drive people off the rails and on to the roads.
To paraphrase Dave Chapelle's famous standup routine, terrorists haven't attacked an American train for the same reason they don't like to take minority hostages -- the result would be complete ambivalence on the part of the government and most of the populace.
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rj3 | 10:50 AM |
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