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U.S. Testing Rail Travel Security Screening

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Richard Layman
7 May 2004 - 10:00am

A national test program aims to make rail travel safer.

One by one, the commuters - about 250 of them - paused during evening rush hour yesterday at the New Carrollton commuter rail station to step into a portal the size of a phone booth. There, several cool puffs of air shot at them, enough air to blow neckties into the air. The scene was the launch of a national pilot test program to make rail travel safer. The passengers and nearly 400 bags were screened for explosives at the Prince George's County station- the first such test on a commuter rail system in the country."

Full Story: Rail security pilot program gets test run: Commuters at the train station in New Carrollton are screened
Source: The Baltimore Sun, May 5, 2004
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