Chemical detectors on DC Metro

[Thomas Smith]

Just read on the CNN website where the Washington, DC Metro will be
installing chemical release detectors in the subway system. The plan was
initiated in secret after the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo a couple years
back. The events of 9/11 just heightened awareness. While the Metro is the
first subway with the detectors, they are planning on deploying them in
large open places like shopping malls.

Tom

[David Lesher]

"Thomas Smith" <thomas....@worldnet.att.net> writes:

There are two stations with them in place now. I've seen them but can't
recall which stations they were, other than they are not the downtown
stations I usually use....

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[Tim Kynerd]

In article <a0m5jk$cee$1...@panix3.panix.com>, David Lesher wrote:
> "Thomas Smith" <thomas....@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
>>Just read on the CNN website where the Washington, DC Metro will be
>>installing chemical release detectors in the subway system. The plan was
>>initiated in secret after the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo a couple years
>>back. The events of 9/11 just heightened awareness. While the Metro is the
>>first subway with the detectors, they are planning on deploying them in
>>large open places like shopping malls.
>
> There are two stations with them in place now. I've seen them but can't
> recall which stations they were, other than they are not the downtown
> stations I usually use....

Hmm, the Washington Post wrote that Metro asked them not to reveal which
stations they were!

I don't live there any more and have no idea, but Smithsonian station seems
like a likely terrorist target, so that was my first guess. But who knows.

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[Dave Simpson]

Tim Kynerd wrote:

>Hmm, the Washington Post wrote that Metro asked them not to reveal which
>stations they were!

They shouldn't reveal the locations. It signals the terrorists that
other stations should be targeted instead.

Dave Simpson

[John R Cambron]

A similar thread/posting was made on news:la.transportation
Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:56:28 GMT
by: "Elson" <el...@westworld.comMIT_MURDER_TO_SPAMMERS> under the
subject heading: CNN.com Story: Toxic Chemical Sensors in
Washington DC Metro.

The following was my response;

"This is not new news. I have known about this project for more
the 18 months. The Washington Times did a story on this project
late last summer. There was a poster on one of the dc.* groups
back in the fall of 1999 that was wondering what the boxes that
were being installed in some of the station was for, he concluded
that the boxes were part of the some kind of toxic-chemical
detecting system."

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