Seoul to Remove Subway Doors Due to Safety Issues
The subway doors were once considered a good idea to reduce the deaths of people falling in front of oncoming trains, but now have become a safety liability after a subway workers was killed by the doors last month:
The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to replace platform doors at subways with retractable doors.
The city government said Monday that it will replace doors at three subway stations by the end of the year.
The doors have been criticized for making evacuations during emergencies difficult as some are installed between billboards that cannot be moved.
All platform doors at stations on Line 9 can be opened, but 25 percent of the doors on Lines 1 through 8 are stationary.
Seoul plans to replace all platform doors down the road, but is in consultations with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport about receiving government grants as the replacement is expected to cost over 50 billion won. [KBS World Radio]
“after a subway workers was killed by the doors last month”
…and I thought it was the train that killed him.
When doors are outlawed, only outlaws will have doors.
Doors don’t kill people. Trains kill people.
You can take my door when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
A society with doors is a polite society.
That door on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
The only thing that stops a bad train with a door is a station with a door.
This is my door. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Q: What is the difference between Leon and a subway door?
A: One is slightly unhinged. The other sometimes spreads to let men enter.
Hmmm. Now I forgot. Maybe the question was how are they the same?
If you like your tbone, you can keep your Leon….
Leon is gay?
-The door is an equalizing defensive item.
-Even before women could vote, they could use doors.
The article says they will be replaced, not removed. Which is good, I really like the doors.
@6, Johnnyboy for the win!
If you like your subway door, you can keep your subway door.
A society with doors is a polite society.
Doors make good neighbors.
Where is tbone lately? Did he run out of copy-pasta fluid? I’ll talk to my cat for him.
Tom: You disappear for months and come back with that? Tsk Tsk, I am disappoint. Is the air that bad in Peking?