At 01:58 PM 6/23/2004 +1200, you wrote:
> > Also there are pay lockers at the larger train stations,
>
>These are less common than they used to be. In  number of places when we
>asked we were told that they used to have them, but no longer. Apparently
>they started taking them out in many places after about 11 September a few
>years ago :-(

They got rid of them in France after terrorism that started in the
mid-1980s. Many bombs in public places (cinemas, shopping centers, etc.,
a bomb in the Tour Eiffel in 1986 (defused successfully) etc.
Terrorism did not begin on 9/11.

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