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Will SMRT latest Platform doors prevent Suicides?

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Platform doors at MRT stations

ST - THE first sets of platform screen doors designed to keep people off the train tracks went up on Wednesday at Pasir Ris MRT station.

Jurong East and Yishun stations will be next and all three stations will have doors fitted by the end of the year. The remaining 33 above-ground MRT stations will get them from January next year.

The doors, which open only when a train pulls into the station, will prevent commuters from falling onto the tracks - intentionally or otherwise.

Such incidents have gone up over the years, from an average of 16 cases a year in 2004 and 2005 to 31 in 2007.

Last year, there were 23 cases of commuters straying onto the tracks. Six of these were due to accidental loss of balance. This year alone, two commuters have died after falling off station platforms and being hit by approaching trains.

Such incidents have prompted repeated calls for platform screen doors by Members of Parliament and commuters. But it was only early last year that the Government gave the go-ahead for the doors to be installed, saying that the cost of such doors had come down.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is spending $126 million on the project and aims to complete work on the remaining 33 stations by 2012.

It will take four to six months to prepare each MRT station and to install the doors. 'We can carry out work only when the trains are not running at night. This leaves us with just 21/2 hours each night to do the work,' said Mr Chua Chong Kheng, LTA's group director of rail (Thomson and existing lines).

Currently, the doors already installed at Pasir Ris station remain open as trains are still running. Signs have been put up to inform commuters about the works, and commuters will be reminded by station staff to stand behind the yellow line.

Testing of the doors at Pasir Ris station will take place next month, after the full 48 sets of doors go up on the platform.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_416017.html

They may deter stupid suiciders I guess.:rolleyes:
 
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