Statistics Of Subway Deaths Before And After Sliding Doors

The mta has said they are considering adding platform sliding doors on some subway lines to keep passengers from going on the trains.

Statistics of subway deaths before and after sliding doors.

But in new york decades of effort to install them have come to naught. In 2011 147 people were hit by new york city subway trains a 15 percent increase over 2010. The tracks and. 50 of those incidents proved fatal according to a recent report the fact of subway deaths was brought dramatically into focus this week with the demise of 58 year old queens man ki suk han whose final moments at the 49th street stop were captured in a controversial new york post photo.

Around the world have safety barriers with sliding doors on their platforms but the idea hasn t gotten traction in new york. Platform screen doors psds also known as platform edge doors peds are used at some train or subway stations to separate the platform from trains as well as on some bus rapid transit systems. Subway system is huge and always happened late at night when the cars. Subway deaths lead mta to discuss doors controllers for platforms.

So my friend said a couple of years ago that the ambulance crews started getting calls about once every week about people found dead on the subway. The mta may install sliding mechanical doors on subway platforms so riders can t fall jump or get pushed to the tracks. Filed under mta subways times square union square 10 24 13. New york city subway could install sliding doors to prevent more shoving deaths as infamous schizophrenic who pushed kendra webdale to her death in 1999 calls for stricter regulations.

The deaths always happened between a few particular stations he said the names but i can t recall them exactly the n y. Yet transit officials are giving it a new look after two people were pushed and a third fell to their deaths on the tracks since early december. Safety doors on subway platforms are a feature on transit systems all over the world as in hong kong above. Members of the mta board on monday revived talks about installing platform doors after a recent uptick in train deaths.

Dozens of subway and light rail systems around the world have safety barriers with sliding doors on their platforms but the idea hasn t gotten traction in new york.