AA's "Fat Flier" Got Whole Row
Ashley Dupre On Tiger Woods' Babes: "At Least I Kept My Mouth Shut"
Same-Sex Marriage Blame Game Aims at Paterson, Addabbo
Wife Tries To Abort And Poison Husband's Lovechild
Rihanna's Random Airport Search
Ooh - NY1 has the exclusive on this exciting bit of subway news: The MTA is planning on installing subway platform doors on the 7 line extension. The platform doors are not only a safety feature, they create savings with energy bills and keep stations cooler. Additionally, they would prevent people from being able to litter in the tracks (and that litter can cause track fires, which is a major cause of subway delays).
A NY Times story from April noted that previous NYC Transit president Lawrence Reuter discouraged the MTA from looking at platform doors because they were expensive and would only apply to few stations in the system. Seems like current president Howard Roberts Jr. thinks differently!
The 7 line extension will include a station at the Javits Center (11th Avenu and 34th Street), but there has been some controversy because the MTA may not build a station at 10th Avenue and 41st, which would otherwise be a no-brainer, due to money issues. The MTA has tangled with the city about funding the $2.1 billion project.
Photograph of a Hong Kong subway platform which has floor-to-ceiling glass walls and doors by Tien Mao
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Ok, we have the platform doors. Now there's little excuse for not installing the air conditioning and heating. Progress sure comes slowly with the MTA.
...and that litter can cause track fires, which is a major cause of subway delays
Someone has been reading the helpful signs in the trains.
Ohhhh, a new place for scratchitti, stickers, ads! Fun, fun!
Finally the XXI century comes to NY....
Platform doors are a great idea and should be a priority in subway upgrades. Of course...there are hundreds of other priorities that should be addressed, as well, but never will, because the mta is a corrupt, money burning organization. Well, maybe organization isn't fair, there isn't much organized about the way the mta runs things.
Anyhow, platform doors = great idea.
platform doors already exist in NYC on the AirTrain.
they got these in some stations in singapore also. when the doors break or are broken into there will be further delays
They don't install active cooling and heating in the subways because it would probably quintuple their energy draw for the system, Ace. This is why the people who built the system set it up so that the air flow would be maintained by trains moving through the platform.
"This is why the people who built the system set it up so that the air flow would be maintained by trains moving through the platform."
And that would be great if not for the dank and piss/shit smell of the subway tunnels. And [3] is right. Unless they invent some kind of scratchitti-proof class that works, its going to look very ugly after a few months.
But it is worth a shot.
If only they'd retrofit them into existing stations.
The air conditioned 4,5,6, and 7 platforms at Grand Central should be the first ones to have them.
i would hardly call the MTA corrupt.
have you ever been to countries in the middle east or africa? now that's corrupt...
Piss and Shit smell predated your stay in this town. Get used to it and stop complaining.
I don't see how anyone can get used to it, regardless of how long you've lived here. You must live in a sty
They should make the walls not out of glass, but out of solid brick, scratched window graffiti (I mean "art") problem solved. Like how they do it in Russia.