The unlikely enemy of the terrorist
The bombings in London showed how vulnerable public transport is to attack. Are there viable ways to reduce that risk? After 9/11, airports introduced tighter security checks and armed air marshals boarded flights. But public transport is much harder to protect. There were nearly one billion journeys made last year on the UK’s network, which has 2,500 mainline railway stations and one of the biggest underground systems in the world.Full Story