Bard spotting thread 02 July 2024

Bardfinn:

"Mustang is certainly attractive for that scenario. I would suggest that it's highly likely that it's been accounted for in that case. (Think: traffic lights / traffic control / cameras / surveillance).

SH360 differs from Mustang in that it is a 50 MPH+ highway running from Grapevine or Mansfield with an extensive stretch of uncontrolled and unmonitored approach and egress surface (save for the "toll booths" at the airport), which makes it attractive to the kinds of violent extremists that have a cell of terrorists all deploying to hit targets independently (as they did in 9/11) at the same time. Undetected approach, uncontrolled terrain, choice of deployment / targets, ease of getaway. Or martyrdom in the ensuing firefight and chase.

Big and splashy and multiple targets and of course that would involve completely overhauling on a short time frame how people commute into all US airports, and close a major thoroughfare in the midcities permanently. Win for the terrorists.

Taking out a single plane from a hotel room in the ascension path of a runway would be bad, but not the "D/FW airport becomes D/MZ airport" scenario that would ensue from terrorists exploiting SH360.

The metroplex was civil-engineered with the idea that gasoline would forever by be $0.25 a gallon and that redneck good ol boys would run "furriners" out of town by sunset and no one would dare to attack us on our own soil. These were faulty premises."

Link: reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/1dt22ll/dfw_airport_toll_fee_why_its_much_cheaper_to_stay/lbb4p7u/