In view of the London Bombings.Is public transport more or less risky than before. Should the council open up more side roads to stop the gridlock or enforce more safety measures on our buses.

It's no more, or less risky than it was before.

The fact is, public transport is vulnerable to terrorist attacks, but so are shopping centres, motorways, football stadiums and cinemas.

The only way to be totally safe is to lock yourself away in an underground bunker. But if you do that, they've won.

You said it all Andy. Well put. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by desy
In view of the London Bombings.Is public transport more or less risky than before. Should the council open up more side roads to stop the gridlock or enforce more safety measures on our buses.

like Andy said, neither more nor less, the risk hasn't changed.

I don't see why the two measures you propose are exclusive as your sentence suggests.
Opening side roads would be a good idea IMO, they should never have been closed in the first place.
What safety measures are you suggesting for buses?

Actually, andy, that's not strictly true. Even in an underground bunker you would still be at threat from running out of/poison in the water supply, a 'cave-in' of the bunker, death by chocolate, either your fellow bunker-mates going mad and killing you, or loneliness/insanity if you're on your own, nuclear weapons, poisonous spiders, death from lack of sunlight, death from lack of oxygen, someone might break into your bunker and gas you..

I feel much safer on the buses :)

Originally posted by kathythebean
Actually, andy, that's not strictly true. Even in an underground bunker you would still be at threat from running out of/poison in the water supply, a 'cave-in' of the bunker, death by chocolate, either your fellow bunker-mates going mad and killing you, or loneliness/insanity if you're on your own, nuclear weapons, poisonous spiders, death from lack of sunlight, death from lack of oxygen, someone might break into your bunker and gas you..

I feel much safer on the buses :)

totally safe from terrorists though (or as safe as possible).

Actually, building a spaceship and living as a hermit beyiond the orbit of pluto, thats probably more safe from terrorists.

Bombs or no bombs, 3500 people die in road crashes every year. You're still at a much greater risk of getting killed in a car accident. I'm taking my 8 year old to London in August, by train, and will be travelling by tube when we get there. B*llocks to the terrorists say I.

I'm going to London this week and will happily be travelling on the tube (although there are bound to be some delays/false alarms, but at least it means the security is higher than normal). Millions of people use the tube every day. No-one knows where or when terrorists will strike (although I think we all knew something was going to hit the underground at some point, and I think something bigger is yet to come), but what's the point in walking around constantly thinking 'oh I'd better not go there in case it gets bombed'. We have to get on with life. Some people in the world are in far more dangerous/intolerable situations.

I don't think it is more or less risky than it was before the bombings - the potential was, and is always there - tragically it has now happened. i consider myself more at risk going to meadowhall - i think the potential for a stike there is huge - however, we have to get on with our lives.