Terrorism Tools: Trains and Buses

Yesterday it was a “ghost train” wreaking havoc in Chicago.  The commuter train was out of service, locked and driverless when it managed to ram head on into a parked passenger train while going the wrong way down the tracks.  It had breached seven fail-safe automated crash prevention systems, each of which should have stopped the driverless train.  Thirty to hospital.

Not long ago in Canada, a speeding driverless freight train blew up after it derailed precisely at the center of a small town.  Massive explosive fireballs burned for two days out of control.  The disaster ripped the heart out of the community.  Over forty deaths.

In Ottawa, a new double-decker bus mysteriously ground itself into the side of a moving passenger train throwing lifeless bus passengers onto the railway tracks.

In Santa Monica California, a bus powered by liquid natural gas (LNG) was attacked by a crazed terrorist who sprayed it with automatic gun fire.  LNG is so violently explosive that he would have blown several city blocks into the ocean if a bullet had penetrated the fuel tank on the bus.  Los Angeles runs TV ads flaunting its environmentally friendly fleet of natural gas powered buses.

Computer chips from North Korea; vehicle control software from Saudi Arabia; and drug addicts at the automated rail switching desks.  We have outsourced our security to the enemy and greed dictates that we cannot get it back.

Wake up North America.  We have a ground transportation terror problem.  Trains don’t leave the station on their own.  LNG in our cities is like a red flag to a bull.