. TRANSPORTATION : UNITED STATES : RESEARCH: Mass Transportation Security Mess: Report Details Chilling Inefficiencies Mass Transportation Security Mess: Report Details Chilling InefficienciesThe Obama Administration Announces New Security Measures for Air Travel, but Trouble Rises at Ground Level
By JAKE TAPPER and HUMA KHANApril 2, 2010 ABC News
<http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/mass-transportation-security- mess-report-details-chilling-inefficiencies/story?id=10267397> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/yh94kxk>As the Obama administration today announced new security measures for U.S.-bound flights, a new study of the nation's ground transportation system shows some alarming vulnerabilities.
The administration's report paints a gloomy picture of the nation's ground transportation system -- trains, highways, subways, and reached the unnerving conclusion that security among the various agencies, government bodies and transportation systems is "inefficient" and "poorly coordinated."
"A lot of work needs to be done," a senior administration official told ABC News.
More than eight years after the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, coordination among agencies and governments when it comes to threats and data to ground transportation systems "is not functioning properly" and "established roles and responsibilities have not been well communicated and are being disregarded," the "Surface Transportation Security Priority Assessment" report warns.
The report comes just days after Moscow's subway system became the subject of a deadly suicide bombing, and it could have significant ramifications for the U.S. ground transportation infrastructure.
As a security issue, land transportation doesn't get the same attention as air transport and no one agency takes responsibility, but experts say it is far more vulnerable to terrorist attacks than airplanes and airports.
Brian Michael Jenkins, a counter-terrorism expert with the Mineta Transportation Institute, says available data indicates since 9/11, there have been 125 deaths from eight aviation-related attacks, outside of war zones. During that same period of time, terrorists have staged almost 700 attacks on surface transportation systems -- such as London, or Madrid -- killing 2,500 people and causing almost 10,000 injuries.
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