Families get their own security lane
The Transportation Security Administration, roundly mocked (fairly or unfairly) for its security procedures, may be on to a good one this time. As part of an experiment at select airports, the TSA has designated checkpoint lanes for families. For frequent travelers who have mastered the procedure of slipping out of their shoes, removing their coats, emptying their pockets and stowing their fluids in a clear plastic ziploc baggie, this is good news. As USA Today reports: “Jeremy Hirschfeld smiled as he and his wife, April, shepherded their children Rachel, 9, and Matthew, 3, through the family lane Friday in Denver. ‘It’s a pretty good idea,’ he said. ‘You know what you’re getting into when you get into the line.’ Thirty feet away at the ‘expert’ lane, road warrior Chris Pestak was equally happy to be separated from people such as the Hirschfelds. ‘I’m not behind somebody with a bunch of kids and a bunch of carry-on stuff,’ said Pestak, an engineer from Cleveland. ‘It’s a good way to speed things up.’
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FINALLY … “intelligent design” from this administration that has its foundation in reason and practicality. It is about time that the TSA started taking a more strategic look at airport security issues and moved away from their hit-or-miss, read-from-a-script, that’s-not-in-my-playbook approach. This is no different than other real-world situations where tasks at hand are classified and queued according to priority and impact. It’s called “risk management”. I would think that the TSA of all agencies would be at least curious about risks.
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