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Trains, stations and the gritty neighborhoods that surround them are often the backdrop to danger.

Rail passengers were slaughtered in terrorist bombings in Paris in 1995 and Madrid nine years later.

Neve mind that, at least in Madrid, it was anything but gritty trains, stations or neighbourhoods...

Has the person writing this actually seen a train station? And I'm not talking about European ones (though that weould help) but, say, Los Angeles Union Station?

This is wankery of the highest order, especially coming from the LA Times.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 at 05:32:44 AM EST
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I just see it as an attempt to discredit the CA HST scheme.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 at 06:10:15 AM EST
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Southern California has the Metrolink. Lots of middle-class professional people in the LA metro area use it to commute - so much so that it's packed for rush hour. They also use the LA subway. They are not going to be impressed by this piece.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 at 06:13:05 AM EST
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Ironically the Los Angeles light rail system has had two major fatal crashes in the past 5 or 6 years.  One incident where a person parked their SUV on the tracks, purportedly to kill themself, then fled the car at last minute, train crashed killing like 20 people.  Then just last year a train operator was text messaging with some train-enthusiast kids he had befriended, ran a series of red lights and crashed the train, killing 5-10 people if I recall correctly.

But, you know, they should fear criminals and terrorists in train stations.

by paving on Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 at 01:34:23 PM EST
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Has the person writing this actually seen a train station?

He's probably seen NY's Penn Station...

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Jun 22nd, 2009 at 06:45:46 AM EST
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