Results tagged “platformscreendoors”

It wasn't long after Adenir DeOliveira, 47, (allegedly) pushed two teenage boys onto the Dufferin subway tracks last Friday when Toronto’s local media began whipping up public support for barriers on TTC subway platforms. CBCnews.ca wrote that the incident “spurr[ed] calls for the devices” without providing any attributive quotes. The Star felt it necessary to add the line “despite two frightening incidents in the past month” after reporting that TTC chairman Gary Webster believes Toronto’s subway stations are still safe. CityNews.ca chimed in as well, writing that Friday’s near-tragedy “has led to renewed calls for safety barriers in the subway” (the "renewed calls" being remarks made by city councilor Joe Mihevc and ordinary commuter Tony Wakelin).

In our inbox yesterday appeared a link to a TTC tender for consultant services, sent to us by Joe Clark (as these things tend to be). They're looking to hire someone to (emphasis ours) "provide professional architectural, engineering/design services and specialized transit services to perform the study concerning the installation of platform screen doors at 75 locations in 69 subway stations and in the six stations that will be constructed within the Spadina subway extension, as well as the documentation to allow the Commission to install a test installation in an agreed upon location."