Comment Re:Not the best examples (Score 1) 428
You could argue that commercial plane passengers deserve some kind of check (there have been hijackings etc), but for a train? They already know who the driver is, why does it matter who the passengers are?
I'm amazed that travelling by Amtrak requires id. That's like China, the only other place I've been where I had to show id to buy a non-local train ticket — and I've been to a few former-Soviet or communist states.