I guess the answer then is to just not travel anywhere?
After all, ALL modes of public transportation are potential targets. And, Amtrak is definitely out of the question after what happened to the trains in Spain.
What's a person to do? Turn into a hermit?
I guess the answer then is to just not travel anywhere?
After all, ALL modes of public transportation are potential targets. And, Amtrak is definitely out of the question after what happened to the trains in Spain.
What's a person to do? Turn into a hermit?
Not quite....I believe that public confidence in public transportation would rise dramatically if the corporations who ran them would simply accept a slightly lower profit margin and truthfully advertise that EVERY passage on EVERY route will feature multiple, highly-trained and heavily-armed Air/Train/Bus Marshals. Yes, it would be expensive. Yes, it most likely will never happen. But the benefit of it would be that the element of 'not knowing' whether you're among sheep or not would return. A precisely-coordinated, meticulously planned terror attack would lose some appeal if it's not known whether they would get to first base with it or not.
A massive ad campaign proclaiming armed marshals on every flight / bus / train / etc would be followed by numerous highly-publicized arrests of baddies by these Marshals would, in my view, do a lot toward rebuilding public confidence in public transportation. As it is now, people feel naked and vulnerable. Nobody likes that sort of feeling.
We need to take a page from the way Israelis handle terrorist incidents...they take what security measures they can and get on with their lives.