Preparing For The Worst

It's good to know that the NYPD, FDNY, and other emergency services departments are preparing for possible terrorist attacks in tunnels and subways. And, they're training together without interservice rivalries typically noted at disaster scenes in NYC by the media. As a regular rider of PATH, that's especially comforting.

The PATH tubes are 100 years old; the Lincoln and Holland Tunnel are more than 70 years old; and the Amtrak tubes under the Hudson River are woefully inadequate and would need hundreds of millions of dollars to improve safety and security. That's just several tunnels in the NYC metro area.

The situation isn't much better in other parts of the country.

That's why this training facility in West Virginia is necessary. We need to be able to train to deal with these kinds of emergencies.