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Bag Searches on Metro Start
Jason’s View from DC
December 22, 2010
Metro has launched a new program of radom “voluntary” bag searches:
The inspections over the far-flung transit network, which has 86 rail stations and 12,000 bus stops, will be conducted by several dozen officers at most. Metro’s trains and buses carry more than 1.2 million passengers every weekday, and officials acknowledge the limitations of the plan.
This from a chat from the Washington Post’s transit guy:
Q.Isn’t “Baggage Checks” a misrepresentation of what they’re doing?
From what I can gather they’re only swabbing the outside unless it turns up positive – seems to me to be a reasonably non-invasive process that would take no more than a couple of moments if, and only if, you happen to get selected. It’s not like you’re going through a TSA-style pat-down…
A. Robert Thomson :
That’s a fair statement, and I’d like to make a couple of points.
Yes, this program is somewhat different from the program announced two years ago, at least on the surface.
