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• Friday, July 11, 2008 05:57 AM

  Insanity

  Patrick, you couldn't be more on the money.

  My front door is 23.3 miles from the door of the Terminal in Detroit (DTW). However I live just across the river from Detroit in Canada. It's not only the TSA that have gone crazy, but the land crossings are insane as well. It regularly takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half to cross the border. Either at the mile long Windsor-Detroit Tunnel or the Ambassador Bridge. That experience, combined with the stupidity of the majority of the regulations imposed by the TSA have made using Detroit more of a pain than it is worth.

  My next option is to drive 213 miles to the airport in Toronto. Believe it or not, it's honestly less of a hassle to drive the three and a half hours to Toronto than it is to drive the 23.3 miles to Detroit (which on any given day takes almost 2 hours anyway).

  I love flying and for me the option of "just not flying anymore" isn't really an option. There's a whole world out there, and to stay at home and not travel doesn't sound like fun to me. I fly solely for pleasure and not for business, so for me it's all optional. The ability to get on a plane, and hours later get off somewhere completely different is far too alluring for me.

  The biggest problem I have with the TSA/DHS is that there is a complete lack of consistent policies. What is ok with one agent, might not be for another.

  What can take 5 minutes with one customs agent can take 20 with another.

  Until the lunacy is consistent, I'll stick to Toronto for my European flights.

  —bordercityboy Read bordercityboy's other letters
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