As a kid, I loved the NY subway, but we were raised with a healthy fear of using it. I always stood against a wall or a post until the train arrived. That’s just the way it was.
This is terrible… but I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Not just here but on other transit systems that also don’t have platform doors.
As a kid, I loved the NY subway, but we were raised with a healthy fear of using it. The platforms were completely open – still are – three and a half feet above the rails, while a third rail could electrocute you if you fell. I always stood against a wall or a post until the train arrived. That’s just the way it was.
But this isn’t the 1960s. It should not be possible to fall onto a rail bed or stumble in front of a train. Design it like a horizontal elevator. Platform doors are not new… the people-mover at the airport has had them from the beginning. The monorail has them at Westlake.Sound Transit is actually one of the safer systems because the platforms aren’t that high, there’s no third rail, and it’s not that crowded. But when the Eastside opens up, and Lynnwood opens up, this becomes a real concern with hundreds of people packed on the platforms. And they will skew toward children and old people because they don’t drive.
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