Most of us at one time or another have gazed longingly down a dark subway tunnel during an interminable wait and thought, "I'd probably get there faster if I just walked it." In the other trespassing-transit-tunnels scare, a Bayonne, New Jersey man decided to do just that yesterday, and strolled from the World Trade Center PATH station to Jersey City. The Post reports that Reymundo Rodriguez, 20, went the entire two miles without getting killed or noticed, until a Port Authority contractor spotted him exiting around 3 a.m. and called the cops. Asked by the contractor what he was doing, Rodriguez replied, "The train never came... so I decided to walk." But when the cops caught up with him, they say he inexplicably told them, "I just put a bomb down on the tracks." more ›

Yesterday morning, the FDNY, NYPD, Port Authority Police, Office of Emergency Management and additional agencies converged on the World Trade Center PATH station in lower Manhattan to participate in a full-scale exercise—Operation Safe PATH 2009— to test their response to an improvised explosive device detonation. While PATH service was suspended and the immediate area were closed off to vehicular and pedestrian traffic, over 800 emergency responders, plus 150 volunteers who portrayed victims, participated in the drill, which involved two (simulated) explosions that occurred on a NJ-bound PATH train about 1000-1200 feet into the tunnel. more ›