Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal is calling on the federal government to improve security on trains following an attack on a Paris-bound train last week.Speaking Tuesday at Union Station in Hartford, Blumenthal says the TSA needs to implement security strategies recommended by the 9/11 Commission and approved by Congress in 2007.
“Railroads receive a fraction of the resources that aviation security does…$124 million, two percent of the $5.6 billion that is spent on aviation security,” said Blumenthal.
Senators Blumenthal and Cory Booker of New Jersey, both Democrats, expressed their concerns in a letter to the TSA administrator. A group of Americans, a Briton and a Frenchman helped to subdue a gunman on a train bound for Paris Friday.