Comments on: The Daily Dig: Hoover Dam Bypass Edition

By: Timon Singh

Timon Singh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:41:50 +0000

“Practice makes perfect, right? Well, 949 practice tries and $4,200 in fees was enough for one South Korean woman to finally pass the written portion of a driver’s exam (you only need a 60 to pass). The 68-year-old now must face the road test.”

What’s the bet she pranged the car on the way home?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:42:46 +0000

The sentence reads: “than that of its entire public transportation system”. It isn’t ambiguous or incorrect. Boston spends 20 times as much on the security of its airport as it does on that ‘of its entire public transportation system’. ‘That’ referencing security, and ‘of’ specifying that it belongs to the public transport. I thought it was clear as could be.

By: JMc

JMc — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:04 +0000

Then again, there are those of us that won’t want the third degree every time we take the subway. (We’ll put aside the issues that airport security does little to make airports secure). Remember you arrive an hour early to get through airport security. Would you like to have to arrive at your T station a hour early to go through screening and detectors? Hey, the Big Dig is critical infrastructure - why don’t we screen every car and truck before it enters the tunnel?

By: Andres Salomon

Andres Salomon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:54:54 +0000

“Boston spends 20 times as much on Logan Airport’s security than that of its entire public transportation system.”

For those who found that statement ambiguous (as I did) - Boston spends 20x as much on Logan’s security as it does on the MBTA’s *security*, not on the entire MBTA.

That’s much less surprising; I can’t recall ever being searched while riding the T, and yet I’m searched just about every time that I fly.