On the one hand there's a non-material hypothetical increase in the chance of "terrorism" on the flip side the system will fulfill its legal and moral obligation to be accessible to those with disabilities. Who is to say which is better?

I’m sorry, who’s bombing the elevator with 3 people on it and not the train with 300 people on it 30 seconds down the time path? By this rationale, we should shut down the J too.

Which looks like it got nicked by it :/

Imagine Paris saying, "I think we should ban all al fresco dining and reftrofit all cafés with bullet-proof windows because it increases the opportunity for terrorists to run an attack" after Bataclan night.

Paris has thousands of not hundreds of thousands of sidewalk bollards

It's bollards to prevent parking on the sidewalk. They won't withstand a golf cart.

It has flimsy parking posts that would not stop a car at speed, meant to discourage illegal parking on the curb. It has *very* few crash-rated bollards.

Well, then there are govts that follow through and that way you get airline-like security for long-distance trains in Spain for example.

I’m sure you could find some spots where they’d try to use it to nuke the nightlife

I mean we have to do this with almost all large-ish festivals these days. Magdeburg had a concept to prevent a vehicular terror attack, it was just bad and wasn't fully implemented, with tragic consequences.

The local Carnival Parade were I live involved two seperate garbage trucks being parked on the main road behind each other to prevent anyone having any ideas. Unfortunately esp. for NYC it is not unreasonable to expect this to also be an issue for day to day.