AMTRAK and Real IDs

[jis]

Here anyone can buy a ticket, give to anyone, and it can be used without any ID hassles at all. That is not my impression of how it works in America with regards to I.D.
I don't suppose there are many Greyhound bus users on the forum, but do you "need ID" to travel on Greyhound too?

IIRC all this Id stuff came in vogue after 9/11 in the US.

 

[Stevenz]

Yeah, thats not profiling. Profinling is when shoplifting is up, so a security guard follows every black person who comes in the store, but none of the white people. Or when you hassle every brown skinned person in line because they "look like a terrorist"

I was being a tad bit facetious.

 

[Willbridge]

Here’s the answer…
https://www.greyhound.com/greyhound-terms-and-conditions-of-travel

Not sure whether they actually check…

I've never been checked on Greyhound, Jefferson Lines, Express Arrow, or Burlington Trailways. Several times my name has been called out by a driver reading a manifest, in order to make sure that seniors were allowed to board first.

 

[Asher]

Getting back to the topic of ID, we opted to get passport cards when we renewed our passports this year. That way we can use the card when traveling by air domestically or if we should decide to drive to Canada.

I explored the idea of Real ID and Enhanced ID when my driver's license was expiring. It would have been a royal pain to gather the required documents and the passport card serves the purpose for essentially the same cost as upgrading my boring basic driver's license.

You’re going to need it to fly domestic 05/07 2025

 

[zephyr17]

You’re going to need it to fly domestic 05/07 2025

@GariYaMoshi already said he has a passport card. That's compliant and all he'll need. He doesn't need Real ID DL, too.

Just like I'll use my NEXUS card and won't bother with a Real ID DL for myself. Which would have to be an Enhanced DL, since Washington only issues non-compliant regular licenses and EDLs.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Americans live in the land of the free, and are freely forced to show I.D.to travel on Amtrak. Here in Nanny State UK we are free to travel on trains without any I.D.

We do have many freedoms enshrined in law, but such protections can be strengthened or weakened to a surprising degree by reinterpretation of the SCOTUS.

 

[railiner]

We do have many freedoms enshrined in law, but such protections can be strengthened or weakened to a surprising degree by reinterpretation of the SCOTUS.

Sort of like the old mantra:
“Eternal vigilance, is the price of safety”…

 

[Qapla]

I don't fly so won't need a Real ID for that purpose ... but I do have the gold star on my Fl License, so I am good to go.

 

[Literalman]

"IIRC all this Id stuff came in vogue after 9/11 in the US," said jis. Yes, the REAL ID Act was passed in 2005. My Pa. driver's license isn't a "real ID." It's like train crews being "dead on the law." They're not really dead.

 

[Shanson]

Sorry if I'm late to the discussion, but aren't nearly all state DLs compliant with REAL ID? If there's a gold star on the license, it's REAL. I had never heard of an option to choose.