Randy, It seems everyone has a different point of view, the volunteers, the users, EAA staff and of course the Northwestern transportation study. Just looking from the outside in but to me the volunteers and users didn’t get much of
“vote”.
Randy, It seems everyone has a different point of view, the volunteers, the users, EAA staff and of course the Northwestern transportation study. Just looking from the outside in but to me the volunteers and users didn’t get much of
“vote”.
Dave Shaw
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They never did a bag check when entering the gate (31) on the Green tram route. The tram would slow down, security at the gate would say' Lets see your wrist bands and that was it.
If you had to buy a wrist band the green tram route was not much help because you had to go over to the main gate. Then you would enter the grounds there.
The green tram did come in handy at the end of the day to get back to the bus park.
They could fire it up at the end of the day. One way west.
Two good points. If some bad actors wanted to do something bad, there is plenty of chain link fencing to crawl over at night. Someday they will start searching landing aircraft.
Northwestern transportation study didn't recommend eliminating the Green tram route, Security did.
The terrorist have won. We changed are behavior do to the fact that we believe its better to be safe than sorry.
Rather than trust. Are we really Free. There's a boogeyman in every bush.
Last edited by Wrongway Feldman; 03-29-2020 at 10:52 AM.
Thanks for the reply. I've taken the gran tram very often over the years, and never seen any real delays with the wrist band check, just hold up your arm for 10 seconds while the tram passes the gate. The bag check is something started just in the past few years, practically a worthless exercise in security drama theater, but again not a big deal in terms of flow.
in all I don't see what the big deal is.
I too am disappointed that the Green tram will not run any more. I used that one a lot. I never got a survey asking about the trams.
I have filled out a lot of EAA Surveys (none on this topic, however). I know, stupid. On each survey there is a section near the bottom asking for comments. ON EVERY survey I ask them to acknowledge back to my email that they have read my survey. I have NEVER had one acknowledgement!. I have stopped wasting my time on their stupid placating surveys. They're going to do what they want.