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0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April, 2006

Trains need all available security tools Train travel, by its nature, presents extraordinary challenges when it comes to security. For commuter rail lines, particularly at terminal stations, so many passengers are boarding or leaving the trains that anything even remotely matching the kind of passenger screening conducted at airports is completely out of the question.

With those kinds of delays, rapid transit would quickly become molasses transit. In city-to-city train travel, by way of Amtrak, some form of passenger screening is more plausible, but the hundreds of miles of track that stretch through sparsely populated areas of the country are vulnerable to sabotage. All of this matters because, as events in Europe during the past year and a half have...