Maybe I'm needlessly worrying - after all, any terrorist wanting to blow up underwater subway tunnels in New York may have been able to get this information easily anyway. But. Doesn't it kind of put bad ideas in peoples' heads?
The authorities have so far focused their efforts on trying to control access to the tunnels, while exploring longer-term improvements like using new synthetic materials to buffer tunnels against an attack.
A major problem is that hundreds of people - from transit workers to outside contractors - regularly enter the tunnels to fix everything from track ties to train signals, without being asked for so much as an identification card. - nytimes.com
Posted by phreq at July 21, 2005 11:08 AM | TrackBack