Platform Screen Doors Toronto

@diannesaxe.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social what is this? Why are we making things worse?

It’s shocking that Metrolinx would release designs without platform doors in this days and age. Council passed this only a few months ago…

This is truly the case, because the same number of road users who die every year is about the same(ish) as the number of subway riders who die…and despite a very clear solution, that has worked elsewhere…the politicians continue to delay…

Building codes require elevator doors, and all we are requesting is that the city hold themselves to the same standard as they do everyone else.

Basically every 12 story building in Toronto has the same or more elevator doors as would be required for a subway platform (24)…nobody would say that the cost of elevator doors are too prohibitive…not even for buildings built before the 1950s…

As you likely know. Platform doors improve not just safety and reliability of the subway, but also noise levels and air quality…

It would be really great to get a subway map version (just the platform levels) and then also a streetcar version would also likely be very helpful for people…

@diannesaxe.bsky.social and @joshmatlow.bsky.social and @cllrainslie.bsky.social can hopefully ask about using lower bay station as a testing ground to speed up implementations and staging when platform doors come to council again…

Toronto has a perfect setup for a test implementation of platform doors, lower bay station would be perfect to ask door manufactures to come and show test implementations…in other cities they build a platform simulator so that they can do test installations to ensure quick and safe implementations

Somehow Madrid is doing platform doors for 100m€ for 70 platforms (28 stations)…Toronto is going to spend 24x that to do 70 stations (140 platforms)… #topoli - we need the board to get to the bottom of this www.metromadrid.es/en/press-rel...

Would be great to imagine what these screens could look like and do if they were embedded in platform screen doors/walls. We’ve seen some pretty great functionality - including “next car full, use next door” signage and interactive maps…

Please contact your politicians, this can be avoided with platform doors...

If you want to take it further...it's then like instead of building platform doors, they put up a suicide prevention phone number and somebody goes around taking it down...

We have a great equivalent...it's like if the TTC had killed over 1000 of it's customers since the subway opened, and has not done anything about it for over 70 years...despite saying safety is their priority...

The TTC has killed over 1000 of it's own customers...

In Japan they added a 10 cent fare surcharge at each station when platform doors were added. This safety and performance surcharge is easily explained, another 1/3 of funding came from the federal government from health savings - again extremely easy to explain.

We have to be willing to collect and spend money on modernization, service improvements, performance and safety improvements across the board. This is best done with specific capital projects that have specific funding mechanisms that are easily explained to the public.

We could use Canadian steel and Aluminum to build and assemble platform doors here...could be a great product for the North American transit market...

YouTube video by Toronto Transit Commission Stay Off the Tracks

TTC has produced a video about staying off the tracks, they seem to recognize there is a massive problem with safety...imagine if we had to make "stay out of elevator shaft" commercials, or "don't stand on the rollercoaster tracks" videos...Platform Doors are the solution...contact your councillor!

A great article that should be informing our decisions on platform doors here in #topoli

Josh we need platform doors, and we need to figure out how to pay for them. Part of that money needs to come from users…the rest from health savings from the province and first responder savings from the city…but let’s normalize paying for improvements…

Would be awesome to get some of these in the subway station. Platform doors can have a massive impact on reducing dangerous noise levels in the subway. Would be good to track it and get some people to speak to the politicians about it.

Really need a post about why Shanghai did doors as well…

I was excited to write more about the 2003 Daegu subway fire, a critical event in understanding Korean transit. without this truly horrifying tragedy, platform screen doors now seen on all South Korean metro stations may not have been possible 🧵 www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

The Toronto feasibility report linked on our website (website link in bio) has a big section on this and what needs to be done to rectify it…

If your car and your house have air conditioning and heating, so should your subway station…the only thing preventing it is a lack of platform doors…

Also reduces the stress for parents (never teach your kid what a yellow line is, never need to hold their hand in a station, never need to lock the brakes on your stroller), and the air conditioning/heating is a massive driver of increased usage…

How Seoul Metro Installed Platform Screen Doors Everywhere The political history of a safety equipment

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: 20 years ago, Seoul was haggling over whether to install platform screen doors at its Metro stations. many called it a waste and an impossibility.

now it’s at all Metro stations across South Korea. how did this transformation happen?

www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

Really interesting that the movement for platform doors came first from those hoping to stop deaths on the tracks, and evolved to encompass a recognition that the doors substantially reduced station air and noise pollution.

Fascinating new article about how metro platform doors became ubiquitous in S Korea, in response to health concerns, notably.

“In South Korea… there are 708 train stations [with rapid transit]. All of them have platform screen doors, a stunning achievement for a country which 20 years ago had one.”