Amtrak Boosts Security Measures
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.19.08 | 12:16 PM ET
Among other steps, the rail service is adding random baggage screening and officers with automatic weapons to some stations and trains, rolling out changes first in the Northeast corridor. Reports the AP: “The initiative is a significant shift for Amtrak. Unlike the airlines, it has had relatively little visible increase in security since the 2001 terrorist attacks, a distinction that has enabled it to attract passengers eager to avoid airport hassles.” Now if Amtrak could just get its trains to run on time, particularly out west.
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John M. Edwards 02.19.08 | 6:27 PM ET
Hi Jim:
I have a suggest for Amtrack. As a Keynesian supply-and-demandist, I suggest you throw in a “Yes Smoking” dining car for longhaul passengers. Nothing beats tooling around Europe, with a duty-free du Maurier in one hand and a brimming Staropramen in the other. With the occsional flipthrough of the Thomas Cook Railway Tables. The view that anybody actually wants to ride on a train for longer than 12 hours, is severely overestimated. Without that pack of fresh-leaf Virginia smokies in the shirt poche we are about as lost as a schizo Mr. Magoo pretending to be Barney Google.