The Anonymous Widower

Platform Edge Doors

I travelled on the Jubilee line this morning and the line has platform-edge doors in the central section around Canary Wharf station.

According to this web page, Crossrail will have them too in the centre section.

Now I know that in theory they are a good way to stop suicides and accidents with drunks, but do they just just move the problem elsewhere?

After all, the preferred way of suicide in the 1950s was to put your head in a gas oven. Suicides continued despite safer North Sea gas.

I suppose we won’t make station platforms totally safe, until all lines have platform-edge doors. But that would be rather expensive.

December 2, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Crossrail, London Underground, Suicide, Trains