Sunday, June 25, 2006
Not my job
That was the response of the Dept of Homeland Security to requests by a commuter groups request to evaluate safety planning for a new commuter rail hub 15 stories underground.
A federal Transportation Security Administration bigwig - writing "on behalf" of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - told the Straphangers Campaign that the feds had no jurisdiction in the matter.Good question.
The response from the TSA, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, came after the feds cut the city's homeland security funding by 40%.
"If they don't provide money for safety measures, and if they don't review safety measures, then what the hell do they do?" Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, asked yesterday.
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