[link|http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/10/07/airport.security.ap/index.html|No, they haven't got their act together yet]

Excerpt:

Reporters for the Daily News carried the objects onto 10 of 12 commercial flights they were sent on last week, the newspaper reported Sunday.

One reporter carried a razor-blade cutter, similar to the weapons believed to have been used in the September 11 terrorist attacks, aboard a flight from New York's La Guardia International Airport to Washington. Another reporter cleared security at Newark International Airport with pepper spray, a utility knife and scissors. Guards at John F. Kennedy Airport failed to catch a camping knife with a 2 1/2-inch steel blade.

Reporters carried potentially dangerous items on flights originating at Newark, Boston's Logan Airport and Washington's Dulles International Airport, the airports where terrorists boarded four planes later hijacked and used in the attacks.

My comment:

Remember that neverending debate about subsidizing Amtrak? It's all moot. The arguments on both sides look ludicrous now.

And by the way, train travel isn't half bad these days.