"Terrorist attacks in Madrid and London have demonstrated the importance of shoring up public transit and other potential targets.... exactly the type of little windows of opportunity that terrorists look for"
Take your false-flag terror s*** and shove it, Globe!!!
"T traps 60,000, raises doubts; Maintenance error halts entire system" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | May 22, 2009
The MBTA's first systemwide power outage in at least a generation stranded 60,000 passengers yesterday, some pressed against each other in crowded rush-hour trolleys, raising questions about how an isolated error could disable an entire public transit system and sparking more public scorn for an agency still recovering from a serious crash.
"You'd think we are living in a Third World country," said Robert Christian, 75, a retiree stuck for 10 minutes between the Kenmore and Hynes stations on the Green Line. "This happens with considerable frequency. It just gets you enraged."
The new AmeriKa!
Yesterday's outage was more than the usual signal problem on a single line. A stray current tripped a central breaker in South Boston, knocking out the system that guides trains and trolleys along their routes, extinguishing lights in the tunnels and many stations, and switching off the fare collection system....
Elaine Kamarck, a former Clinton administration official who has written about homeland security, who lectures on government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and uses the Red Line, said terrorist attacks in Madrid and London have demonstrated the importance of shoring up public transit and other potential targets.
"Whenever something like this happens, what you realize is how a small thing can cause real chaos and those are exactly the type of little windows of opportunity that terrorists look for," she said....
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