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Posted by Rail Blue on Sat Sep 8 21:19:15 2007, in response to Re: (7) line extension stations will feature platform-to-ceiling doors, posted by AMoreira81 on Sat Sep 8 18:32:43 2007. However, has this system (premature shutting) resulted in any injury yet?Yes. Mr Michael Strzelicki of Transport for London made the following statement to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee on Wednesday 22nd January 2003: The safety risks are reduced by platform-edge doors*, for fairly obvious reasons. They do not go away entirely, because they are trapped in the platform-edge doors as opposed to just the train doors. However, we have had very, very few incidents and no significant injuries as a result of them yet. The prospects for retro-fitting those doors across the rest of the rather old network are not good at all. There is no business case, on safety or other grounds at the moment, for retro-fitting them. This of course, once you cut out the dreadful UK Civilservicese, implies that there had been a number of incidents involving PEDs, causing injuries that TfL has not deemed "significant". The committee failed to ask Mr Strzelicki what TfL's definition of this term was. (Sadly, this sort of thing is all too common for parliamentary scrutiny.) * What's really funny is that TfL's other man sent to the same committee, Mr Paul Godier, had just stated: "The platform-edge doors, therefore, do not add a lot to improve safety, given our style of managing that situation. They have other advantages, but I will ask Mr Strzelecki to say a bit more about that." |
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