John Hanson, chief executive of the DRPA, complained publicly last week that the DRPA and other agencies were frustrated about their inability to make security decisions until the Secret Service announced what it was going to do.
"Visitors to the City of Brotherly Love will not see magnetometers waiting for them on the bridge, nor will they see Secret Service or City of Philadelphia 'screening stations,' " the Secret Service said in its statement, without addressing what would be done by other agencies, such as the DRPA or Camden County police forces.
I don't really know what's going on, of course, but there has been a constant stream of unofficial, quasi-official, and official leaks followed by various denials and walkbacks and then confirmation of the basic hellscape that is to come. Whatever details aren't quite right, the basic security plan is insane, starting with the effective closure of the public transit system (no what they're doing is not efficient, it's nuts and won't work). If everything else follows from the logic behind the confirmed rendering of the transit system useless, then anyone who gets anywhere near the city for the Popeocalypse is making a big mistake.
And if I'm wrong, they'd better improve their PR game, because it's shit.