CelticWhisper
Service Attendant
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- Jul 11, 2012
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So it's another day, another Amtrak trip, and another set of CW's frayed nerves over traveling with privacy intact. I was reading the thread about the new CUS Metro Lounge and saw crescent-zephyr's post about lots of search tables being set up and having baggage searched onboard the train(!), in a roomette? I'm leaving from CUS in early April and going to ATL by way of WAS, and that was not fun to read about. I'm traveling in a roomette myself and will be (presumably) boarding from the Metro Lounge and not the regular departure gates, so theoretically wouldn't encounter any searches for coach passengers.
I'm not okay with searches - not of my possessions and certainly not of my person. Amtrak Police were playing security-theater in PVD last August, making a show of checking the outsides of bags for explosive residue, and that was unsettling enough by itself. As it's apparently my lot in life to be "that guy" about travel security, and because I do take this stuff super seriously ever since having sworn off flying...can anyone speak to the present state of the (Chicago) Union (Station)? Thoughts on how best to protect my privacy if I should need to?
Thanks.
I'm not okay with searches - not of my possessions and certainly not of my person. Amtrak Police were playing security-theater in PVD last August, making a show of checking the outsides of bags for explosive residue, and that was unsettling enough by itself. As it's apparently my lot in life to be "that guy" about travel security, and because I do take this stuff super seriously ever since having sworn off flying...can anyone speak to the present state of the (Chicago) Union (Station)? Thoughts on how best to protect my privacy if I should need to?
Thanks.