Platform barricades  to be installed at all BTS skytrain stations following incident

 

 

The Bangkok Mass Transit System announced today that it will install barricades on the platforms of the remaining 14 stations of the BTS skytrain system as soon as possible.

 

The announcement from Mr Surapong Laoha-anya, the managing director, came after an incident this  morning when a female passenger fainted and fell onto the rail track at Ratchathevi station.

 

The female passenger was rescued and safely pulled out of the rail track by the company’s security guards.  Fortunately, she suffered only minor injuries.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/platform-barricades-to-be-installed-at-all-bts-skytrain-stations-following-incident/

 

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Platform doors are linked to the signaling system so the doors open/ close when the train arrives and the departs. You cannot just put doors on a platform

 

Yet more train related nonsense

So, they're going to spend months installing barricades, because one person fell onto the tracks? Imagine if they could apply this enthusiasm for safety on the roads. 

“As soon as possible” hahahaahaha


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FOR SALE 10,000 whistles. Used but well maintained. Slight odour of somtam.

You think they mean those plastic ones at Siam Center????

 

Assembled Poindexters?????

Yet other countries manage just fine with open platforms.

Yet other countries manage just fine with open platforms.

The London Underground could do with more of them. Good to see the BTS taking sensible safety precautions; like the MRT.

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34 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Yet other countries manage just fine with open platforms.

Very true  but this is Thailand.  This country has a huge problem with gambling debts and other financial/family related problems.  Easiest or only way out in many cases is suicide.

They will need gates on the platforms in the coming years but it will mean an increase in highway  overpass jumpers.  You cant win. Yet some pundits still want a real casino in Bangkok.    Unbelievable.

I think ex PM Thaksin wanted to demolish Patpong and build a casino many years back.

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36 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Yet other countries manage just fine with open platforms.

There were sometimes suicides in the country where I lived.

The train drivers were sent on special courses to help them deal with the psychological problems they faced.

 

 

Very true  but this is Thailand.  This country has a huge problem with gambling debts and other financial/family related problems.  Easiest or only way out in many cases is suicide.
They will need gates on the platforms in the coming years but it will mean an increase in highway  overpass jumpers.  You cant win. Yet some pundits still want a real casino in Bangkok.    Unbelievable.
I think ex PM Thaksin wanted to demolish Patpong and build a casino many years back.

With the current over-crowding of platforms in rushhour, installing more barriers is a no-brainer.

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Not too difficult.

5 hours ago, Dave67 said:

Platform doors are linked to the signaling system so the doors open/ close when the train arrives and the departs. You cannot just put doors on a platform

 

Yet more train related nonsense

Might you get the notion this is not train related nonsense?

Obviously those doors and barriers will be connected to the signalling system.

Not too difficult.

Of course. All the central BTS stations have them already.

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Not too difficult.

Of course. All the central BTS stations have them already.

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2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Of course. All the central BTS stations have them already.

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Strangely enough I must be one of the few expats who has never been on the sky train or underground system in BKK.

Japan and Korea yes but never here.

2 hours ago, DoctorG said:

Yet other countries manage just fine with open platforms.

What! You mean to say that the London Underground didn't already install platform gates. They surely must employ thousands of security guards, all blowing whistles advising people to stay away from the edge of the platform when the train is coming.

Knee jerk reactions abound.

20 minutes ago, hansnl said:

Might you get the notion this is not train related nonsense?

Obviously those doors and barriers will be connected to the signalling system.

Hopefully they will remain connected to the signaling system and not have an override switch as most traffic lights have.

Of course once the barriers are installed there will be security guard/whistler's, with much spare time on their hands, that added to curiosity and the temptation to play with the override switch may just be too much.

Cheaper to employ security guards at platforms for 350B per day than to install gates. Being a private company, profit is above everything else!

Typically Thai: after the event. 

Many automated doors are already installed at MRT and BTS stations. It is good to hear they will continue installing the rest. This will avoid; fainting people, selfie addicts, desperates, children and texting-zombies. You have no idea how many times the guards have to interfere to save people standing to close to the rails. For me Thailand is an example of well organized, clean and grafity free metro systems.


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4 hours ago, hansnl said:

Might you get the notion this is not train related nonsense?

Obviously those doors and barriers will be connected to the signalling system.

I agree. The point I was making its not something that is done overnight it means nightly possessions and interfacing with the signaling system both timely and costly

4 hours ago, 8OA8 said:

What! You mean to say that the London Underground didn't already install platform gates. They surely must employ thousands of security guards, all blowing whistles advising people to stay away from the edge of the platform when the train is coming.

Knee jerk reactions abound.

No we have a suicide pit 

Typically Thai: after the event. 

Not really. All the central BTS stations have had them for years and the whole of the MRT has them. Extending it to the outer stations makes sense now that a more heavily used.

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13 hours ago, Jeremy50 said:

So, they're going to spend months installing barricades, because one person fell onto the tracks? Imagine if they could apply this enthusiasm for safety on the roads. 

Truth.  Did she get bruised?  On the roads heads are being crushed, bodies burned, limbs torn off...it's baffling