One in Korea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9M-5RD9TFQ
Tony P
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 23:23:06 UTC+10oct...@... wrote:
> There's only one station left in NYC with gap fillers - 14th St/Union
> Square on the downtown 4/5/6 train (Lexington Avenue Line). They're very
> much platform mounted. They're pneumatic, and deploy when the train has
> stopped - the conductor waits to open doors until they're deployed. They're
> actually "knocked back" by the movement of the train when departing - I've
> heard that's to avoid anyone falling through who tries to run towards the
> train while the doors are closing. As such, the operator starts moving
> slowly until the fillers retract.
>
> Video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji4PjCHaRcU
>
> The old South Ferry (1 train southern terminus) had them as well, as did
> Times Square on the 42nd St shuttle. South Ferry's are still there, but the
> loop station is out of service (replaced by a new station), and the entire
> 42nd St shuttle has been rebuilt, which included reconfiguring the Times Sq
> shuttle platforms to eliminate those gap fillers.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:00 AM 'bblun...@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder <
>tramsdo...@...> wrote:
>
>> I was a bit worried about all the people pushing on the windows though.
>> Could have been disastrous if the glass had given way?
>>
>> I was in New York a few years ago and I recall a station on very tight
>> curve. There were extendable mechanical fillers used to bridge the
>> considerable gaps. I can't remember whether they were under the carriage
>> floor, or under the platform copings. Would something like this work here?
>>
>> On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 03:47:31 pm AEST, David Batho <
>>dba...@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Interesting video. Amazing the number of bystanders who came up to have a
>> look, and then just stood there gawking, not helping. I remember one of the
>> things we were told to do when a student was injured (I was a teacher) was
>> to keep bystanders away from an incident, so they didn’t get in the way and
>> didn’t panic the patient.
>>
>> I was also intrigued by the young guy who appeared to be blocking both
>> his ears. I though he might have been trying to block out the screams of
>> the accident victim (maybe a sensory thing?), but then I realised he was
>> talking on his phone (held up to one ear) whilst blocking the other ear so
>> he could hear properly. I’m guessing he was giving a running commentary to
>> someone?
>>
>> Really encouraged by how everyone pitched in and help to push the train
>> over to release the guy’s leg, though.
>>
>> Funny thing, crowd behaviour...
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 14 Aug 2022, at 7:54 pm, TP histor...@...> wrote:
>>
>> These gap fillers are basically to minimise hazards for boarding and
>> alighting passengers on curved platforms. When the Disability
>> Discrimination Act came into force in 1992, the requirements were not as
>> strict as those of the subsequent regulations of 2002. Off the top of my
>> head, at least two new Australian tram and train commuter lines were built
>> between 1992 and 2002 - the IWLR in Sydney and much of the Joondalup line
>> in Perth. Both had a mixture of straight and curved platforms, which in
>> hindsight was a mistake. They were considered as compliant at the time, but
>> subsequent to 2002 are not. The solution to making the Sydney IWLR line
>> compliant was the use of portable ramps, similar to, but more unwieldy
>> than the fold-out ramps on buses, by means of which that mode gains
>> compliance. The Joondalup line is a bit more up the proverbial creek and
>> there was a notorious accident several years ago when somebody fell down
>> the gap at Stirling Station. My guess is they would be installing gap
>> fillers there, if they haven't already done so.
>>
>> A 1990s gap not compliant with the 2002 regs:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIG4FQBDjI
>>
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