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posted by janrinok on Sunday June 10 2018, @08:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the sensible dept.

Joe Manchin, the senior Senator from West Virginia, has inserted language in the FY19 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bill that will force Amtrak to employ at least one ticketing agent in every state that it serves.

His reasoning? "Amtrak has told me that most of their sales are now online, but West Virginians buy far more tickets at the Charleston station than most places around the country. That's not surprising, as nearly 30% of West Virginia is without internet access, and mobile broadband access is also difficult in my state's rugged, mountainous terrain, making online ticket sales difficult."

Source: https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-secures-language-to-ensure-amtrak-ticket-agent-in-west-virginia


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday June 10 2018, @01:31PM (3 children)

    In all the airports in the US, the Transportation Safety Administration makes every passenger remove their shoes then pass them through an X-Ray.

    This because just one potential suicide bomber was stopped from lighting the fuse to his shoe bomb by the passenger next to him. There has _never_ been so much as an attempted shoe bombing in the many many years since that incident!

    What I find the most irritating is having to remove my belt. I'm a fat boy so I always buy fat boy's pants. But if those pants aren't belted and slide down just a few centimetres, they will fall down all the way to my ankles. That means I have to hold them up by at least one hand; when I get through the metal detector I have to retrieve all my stuff with just one free hand.

    I too take my shoes off when I put my feet up on the opposite seat.

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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:19PM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:19PM (#691109) Journal

    In all the airports in the US, the Transportation Safety Administration makes every passenger remove their shoes then pass them through an X-Ray.

    Not true. If you have TSA Pre, or you use Clear or some other service, you can get through without taking your shoes off. You don't think the TSA wants to piss off the wealthy and powerful people, do you?

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:35PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:35PM (#691116) Journal

      You don't think the TSA wants to piss off the wealthy and powerful people, do you?

      All part of keeping them safely within the security theater, citizen.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:00PM (#691156)

      That's what I thought, until the day I flew after helping my dad load a bag of fertilizer the night before. That set off the chemical detector. I had to take my belt off and get patted down. This required holding my arms straight out. This was right after a successful weight loss program and before I bought new pants.

      The _only_ reason I was in TSA-ville is that my dad had a medical emergency and I didn't want to wait three days to get there. Every other time I've taken Amtrak and been glad of it. It's like getting into a slightly strange hotel in one city and checking out of it in another.