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[petdance.livejournal.com]

What's the point?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Maybe that it's like concentrating on safer boats than safer cars because there's more people in a boat? I don't know what the relative total use figures are in the US.

[crazy-mittens.livejournal.com]

You obvoiusly don't live in a city. The point is that since the london bombing the government said it will not give extra funds to help keep the public transit systems safer. But it does to the airline industry. New York one article (http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=52177) Or you can just go to new.google.com and search for chertoff.

[darthbeckman.livejournal.com]

If Chertoff had a hood in that cartoon, he'd look like Skeletor.

[groundbyground.livejournal.com]

Skeletor hell! Check out Hitler climbing up on the right.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Well, there's also a much larger fall involved with explosions on airplanes...

[mogador.livejournal.com]

That does not mean that one should be forsaken to maintain the other. Ah if only we had a few spare billion a month...oh wait.

[the-call-up.livejournal.com]

I don't think it has anything to do with the amount of people riding, or the "fall". The answer is very simple. People take public transportation because it is a "faster" way of getting to wherever they need to go, than waiting in traffic for hours. If you give it an hour long back up for 2 security guards to wave a wand over 300 people than people aren't going to ride public transportation anymore. I know I wouldn't. It's the same reason I don't fly unless I'm going international. It's not worth my time. A false sense of security is not worth me waiting around for 5 hours in line.

[johnraptor.livejournal.com]

The official reason I heard was that since airliners fly from state to state, it falls under federal jurisdiction to protect them, but since public transportation is mainly local, it's out of federal jurisdiction and up to the states to protect.

[the-call-up.livejournal.com]

The Public Transit system I ride, by that definition (and for other reasons) falls under 'Federal Jurisdiction'. But I really don't WANT them to do anything.

[johnraptor.livejournal.com]

That's just what I've been hearing from the talking heads on the subject. They keep saying that public transportation security is the responsibility of the states. I'm sure it's not the only reason for the disparity.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

The subways in New York, Philly, and DC cross state lines.

[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

I was reading something about how they were installing gunpowder sniffers at doorways.