W. K. Lis
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Yonge Bloor could have platform doors put in to prevent falling on the tracks.
Subway platforms doors was one of the "gravy" projects "postponed".
Yonge Bloor could have platform doors put in to prevent falling on the tracks.
Subway platforms doors was one of the "gravy" projects "postponed".
They really don't need their cooperation. All the power that municipalities have are given to them by the Province, and can be taken away. If the province deemed it necessary they could take Toronto's role in controlling the TTC and make it part of Metrolinx.
It's always good to work things out with cooperation and feedback, so I doubt they would do that, but it's not like they can't.
And they'd get it. But keep telling yourself that a Council which just said no (or declined to say yes if you prefer) to most new revenue options while at the same time asking for a thousand more subways would say no to a funded subway.
Even with platform screen doors, the incident in which the four-year-old girl fell into the tracks at St. Clair station would have still happened anyways. If platform screen doors must be installed, platform extenders need to be installed as well. After all, platform screen doors themselves do not prevent little children from falling through.Watch how quickly those platform screen doors are built once a few customers fall off a crowded platform onto the tracks.
I lost a 3-year old down the gap between the platform and the train a couple of years ago. I just stood to block the door, hauled her out, finished boarding, told her that's why you need to mind the gap, and tried to ignore the shocked look from other passengers.(or more? when was the last time a rider fell through the gap?)"
An extender isn't possible at the location where the girl fell through because of the curve of the platform. If they built it out it would clip passing trains. That was a one-in-a-450-million event (or more? when was the last time a rider fell through the gap?), if anything all that's necessary is to repeat the warning to "mind the gap"
I lost a 3-year old down the gap between the platform and the train a couple of years ago. I just stood to block the door, hauled her out, finished boarding, told her that's why you need to mind the gap, and tried to ignore the shocked look from other passengers.
It never occurred me to terrify her to death and alert the media.
New York City and Hong Kong has extenders that extend and retract. See wilkipedia.
[video=youtube_share;YwQ2jEJed5M]http://youtu.be/YwQ2jEJed5M[/video]
Clearly, those extenders wouldn't be of any use to the TTC. It looks like those fillers are designed to close gaps of several feet. And the small gap that remains in the video still looks bigger than the ones we have here here in Toronto.
I think it was Queen ... or Dundas, I lost the kid down ... northbound platform somewhere. I'll have to keep my eyes open, 'cause looking more recently I don't see the kind of gap you could do that in most stations.Worst incident I've seen was last summer at Queen Station.
I think it was Queen ... or Dundas, I lost the kid down ... northbound platform somewhere. I'll have to keep my eyes open, 'cause looking more recently I don't see the kind of gap you could do that in most stations.