In message , Martin D. Pay
writes
>The UK authorities are of course experimenting at the moment with
>airport-style metal detectors at a few of the larger railway termini.
>If the program is a success (however they will define that I don't
>know) they plan to roll out the program across large parts of the UK
>rail network...
That's just the authorities trying to be seen to be doing something. It
might catch kids carrying knives on their night out, but it won't do
anything to stop terrorism unless they can cover every entrance to every
one of the 3000+ railway stations 24/7 -- and a lot fewer than 50% of
the stations even have a staffed ticket office for even part of the day,
so I can't see that ever happening. Even if they could cover all the
stations, there's 11,000 route-miles of track which can be accessed at
any level crossing, crossing someone's field, or through a sympathiser's
back garden - why should terrorists find it any more difficult to get on
the tracks than kids and vandals do?
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Arwel Parry
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