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The killing of a woman pushed into the path of a train at the city’s busiest subway station over the weekend has revived calls for the MTA to install protective shields and doors on platforms.
Former MTA executives and transit advocates told THE CITY that Michelle Go’s death should prompt the agency to revisit the issue — and follow the lead of transit systems around the world.
“It is high time that the MTA live up to the promise to install platform doors that can save lives,” said Charles Moerdler, who served on the MTA board from 2010 into 2019 and unsuccessfully sought to have platform screens tested in the subway.
“They said five, 10 years ago that they would test these doors out, and none of that has happened.”
Go, 40, was shoved by a man onto the tracks at the Times Square-42nd Street station, police said, before being fatally struck by an R train — a seemingly unprovoked death that platform screens could have prevented.
‘An Idea That Works in Many Places’
“China has them, Thailand has them, South Korea has them,” a former senior MTA official who did not want his name published told THE CITY. “Systems all over the world have made the decision to go in that direction, so now it’s just a matter of when are we going to wake up on this?”
I loved platform doors when riding the 1 line, in Paris. And love it on the Airtrains for the airports I've rode them (LGA, EWR, JFK, ATL)
But everyone of those stations/airtrain stops are straight. How can folk build platform doors at, say, Brooklyn Bridge, where the station is on a turn? And how about on the elevated lines, where the els are quite old, as someone said?
This is USA. You just need the RIGHT person with the key oligarch connections to go into the platform door business and boom the project will be approved / funded / touted as a safety must have post haste.
The MTA can start with a project management plan to build these doors. They can install these doors in high traffic stations such as Times Square, Herald Square, etc. Then slowly branch out. Alternately, they can begin installation with the platform dividers on outdoor stations which have generally straight lines and no curves.
start pushing MTA workers onto tracks until this gets done
That is rather disgusting and harsh.
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