New York Subway System Still Vulnerable To Terror Attack
September 12, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to create a state-of-the-art surveillance system for New York City’s subway system, the monitoring technology is still not in place and experts say the city’s underground transportation tunnels remain a leading and unnecessarily vulnerable target to terrorism eight years after the 9/11 attacks devastated the country.
“Terrorists, if they did surveillance, would know that security hasn’t really improved since 9/11,” said former national security officer Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant.
After the terrorist attacks, a classified report for NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority revealed that an explosion and a breach in the many subway tunnels that run under Manhattan’s East River could shut down the tunnels for years, which former MTA security official Nick Casale said could result in the loss of thousands of lives.
