Who the fuck ASKED for this?
White suburbanites? Those whimpering cowards are too scared of their own shadow to even conceive of the existence of non-car methods of getting around.
Really cool and good to see what few things I like about burgerland be stomped out like they’re actual problems by pearl clutchers. Even the fun police is militarized in the great satan.
I mean China already does this for almost all their trains and metros, and it’s really very quick, but knowing the United States it’ll be an absolutely clusterfuck.
I’m sure they’re going to “randomly” pull people aside for additional security checks
Don’t forget about
Are they afraid someone is going to hijack a train with a box cutter and crash it into the Gateway Arch?
Are they just trying to kill public transit even further so people only use planes?
Likely
They’ve been mulling over doing the same shit in Poland because “hybrid warfare”
feeling cute and midwestern, might delete later idk tho
I was there last year, and it looked like they already had a huge emphasis on security. Thick metal fences and revolving gates, and lots and lots more security guards standing around.
They really are going to double their transit budget for security sooner than just making it free, aren’t they?
Meanwhile, in Memphis a $1 bus ticket can literally take you all the way across the county, and security is maybe one random dude in a uniform that you see walking through.
Damn. I was fucking strapped last time I took a train cross-country. Nobody asked and nobody cared.
