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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Why glass panels instead of guardrails at MRT stations?
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to the article, "Woman dies after being run over by train" (March 25).
When the first incident occurred several years back, I wrote to the Land Transport Authority and SMRT suggesting they install fixed metal guardrails between 1m and 1.2m high along the edge of the platforms at all above-ground stations.
These guardrails could be fabricated in a factory, delivered to the sites and bolted onto the floor. The fabrication work and installation would be fast and cheap, with minimal maintenance.
But my suggestions went unheeded. Now SMRT is installing 1.5m screen doors at all the 36 above-ground stations, to be completed in 2012.
Glass panels or frames are very costly to install. There are also high maintenance costs involved. The use of panels also restricts cross wind flow and commuters might bump against the glass if they are not careful. Michael Yeo
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to the article, "Woman dies after being run over by train" (March 25).
When the first incident occurred several years back, I wrote to the Land Transport Authority and SMRT suggesting they install fixed metal guardrails between 1m and 1.2m high along the edge of the platforms at all above-ground stations.
These guardrails could be fabricated in a factory, delivered to the sites and bolted onto the floor. The fabrication work and installation would be fast and cheap, with minimal maintenance.
But my suggestions went unheeded. Now SMRT is installing 1.5m screen doors at all the 36 above-ground stations, to be completed in 2012.
Glass panels or frames are very costly to install. There are also high maintenance costs involved. The use of panels also restricts cross wind flow and commuters might bump against the glass if they are not careful. Michael Yeo
