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$3.5million per station.
the doors made of gold?
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</TD></TR><TR><TD>Aug 13, 2009
MRT SAFETY
</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : start --></TD></TR><TR><TD>Platform doors at 3 stations by year-end
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The first sets of half-height platform screen doors went up at Pasir Ris MRT station yesterday. Testing of the doors starts next month. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE first sets of platform screen doors designed to keep people off the train tracks went up yesterday 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).
While commuters feel the doors should have gone up sooner, they say it is better late than never. Accountant Quek Ei Bing, 29, said: 'I always see people going over the yellow line at station platforms so they can board the train quickly and get a seat. It is really dangerous, someone might just nudge you from behind and you could fall.'
MP Lim Wee Kiak, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport, welcomed the start of work to install the platform doors, but hoped that more will be done to keep commuters safe in the meantime. 'Perhaps the authorities can look at some temporary low-cost solutions, such as moving the platform's yellow line inwards.'
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.
Singapore Technologies Electronics, which won the contract to install the doors, is carrying out the works.
The doors will operate like the full-height doors in underground MRT stations. Trains will not be able to move off if the platform screen doors are still open.
Signalling systems will synchronise the screen doors with train doors and sensors will detect things caught in between.
Made of tempered glass, the doors will be able to withstand heavy wind and impact - up to 150kg per sq m, to be exact, said the LTA.
'They will be as strong as the full-height doors in underground stations,' said Mr Chua.
Singapore is not the first city to have half-height platform screen doors in its train stations. Such doors are currently found at some stations in Taipei and Paris.
Besides the doors, the Government is also spending $29 million on more closed-circuit television sets in MRT stations to boost commuter safety.
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$3.5million per station.
the doors made of gold?
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</TD></TR><TR><TD>Aug 13, 2009
MRT SAFETY
</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : start --></TD></TR><TR><TD>Platform doors at 3 stations by year-end
</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>Remaining 33 above-ground stations to get them from next January </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Yeo Ghim Lay
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The first sets of half-height platform screen doors went up at Pasir Ris MRT station yesterday. Testing of the doors starts next month. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE first sets of platform screen doors designed to keep people off the train tracks went up yesterday 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).
While commuters feel the doors should have gone up sooner, they say it is better late than never. Accountant Quek Ei Bing, 29, said: 'I always see people going over the yellow line at station platforms so they can board the train quickly and get a seat. It is really dangerous, someone might just nudge you from behind and you could fall.'
MP Lim Wee Kiak, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport, welcomed the start of work to install the platform doors, but hoped that more will be done to keep commuters safe in the meantime. 'Perhaps the authorities can look at some temporary low-cost solutions, such as moving the platform's yellow line inwards.'
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.
Singapore Technologies Electronics, which won the contract to install the doors, is carrying out the works.
The doors will operate like the full-height doors in underground MRT stations. Trains will not be able to move off if the platform screen doors are still open.
Signalling systems will synchronise the screen doors with train doors and sensors will detect things caught in between.
Made of tempered glass, the doors will be able to withstand heavy wind and impact - up to 150kg per sq m, to be exact, said the LTA.
'They will be as strong as the full-height doors in underground stations,' said Mr Chua.
Singapore is not the first city to have half-height platform screen doors in its train stations. Such doors are currently found at some stations in Taipei and Paris.
Besides the doors, the Government is also spending $29 million on more closed-circuit television sets in MRT stations to boost commuter safety.
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