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by tgsovlerkhgsel 547 days ago
You can (usually) stop a train within less than a minute and then trivially evacuate it.

They're also less dense than most other public transport, including planes.

And it's impossible to add security to local transit, because standing for 15 minutes at a security checkpoint for a 15 minute bus ride will make everyone get a car and/or unelect the idiot who implemented that rule.