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Pushing people off the tracks | East Rail's installation of gates is too late to the light rail 3 reasons

2021-11-29T08:47:41.371Z


Tuen Mun Tai Hing North Station yesterday afternoon (28th) was surprised to see a woman being pushed off the track on a light rail platform. According to data, this month alone, there were at least three passenger falling accidents on different railway lines, including two. The victim was killed in the end


Tuen Mun Tai Hing North Station yesterday afternoon (28th) was surprised to see a woman being pushed off the track on a light rail platform. According to data, this month alone, there were at least three passenger falling accidents on different railway lines, including two. The victim was killed in the bottom of the train. At the beginning of last year, the 17-year-old Taekwondo female porter Lin Yonglan jumped off the track, and the accident that his knees were broken was even more shocking.


As early as more than 20 years ago, there were voices in society for the installation of screen doors or automatic gates on all MTR station platforms, but the East Rail Line and Light Rail Line gates have not yet been seen.

The MTR said last year that it would start related projects after the 12 trucks on the East Rail line were fully retired and 9 trucks were connected to the cross-sea section. However, the platforms along the Light Rail Line were too narrow to overcome technical difficulties. Tie Ming stated that there is no plan to install a gate.


East Rail Light Rail crashed three times this month and 2 people died

The MTR East Rail Line and Light Rail Station platforms have not yet installed screen doors, and accidentally falling, jumping, and even being pushed off the track accidents have occurred from time to time. There have been at least three related incidents in the month alone.

In addition to yesterday’s accident when a woman was pushed off the track at the North Light Rail Daxing North Station, a 66-year-old man also fell off the track at the platform of Tai Wo Station on the East Rail Line in the direction of Sheung Shui last Saturday (27) and was hit by a train again. When he was involved in the vehicle, firefighters were certified dead when he was rescued. On the 6th of this month, a man fell off the track at Mong Kok East Station on the East Rail Line and was also certified dead on the spot.

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The career of Taekwondo, the rising star of the falling track, ends

In recent years, the most shocking incident was that in February last year, the Taekwondo "Tomorrow Star" Lin Yonglan, who has a black belt, suddenly jumped off the platform in the direction of Sheung Shui at Kowloon Tong Station in the early morning and was then driven onto the platform. The train ran over, and the 17-year-old Lin Yonglan's legs were smashed to the knees and disconnected.

Although her life is not in danger, her career as an athlete has ended.

In 1998, he was pushed off the track and broke his foot. Paralympic port team archer Wei Jiaquan actively strives to install a screen door

Wei Jiaquan, the archery representative of the Tokyo Paralympic Port Team this year, was also a victim of being pushed off the track.

In 1998, when Wei Jiaquan, who was only 27 years old at the time, was waiting for the train at the Kowloon Tong Station, he was suddenly pushed off the track by a mentally ill person. Removal, forced to abandon the deep-hot baseball, reluctantly bid farewell to the stadium.

He later turned to the MTR to fight for the installation of screen doors, so that most of the current station platforms can be installed with screen doors successively.

Kwun Tong Line and Tsuen Wan Line to add curtain gate cost a total of 2 billion

Track fall accidents continue. As early as 20 years ago, there were voices asking the MTR to install screen doors to protect the safety of passengers.

In early 1997, the MTR tried to install platform screen doors at Choi Hung Station. After the test was successfully completed, it immediately added screen doors or gates to the eight platforms of the new railway that went into service the following year.

The MTR announced in 1999 that it would install screen doors in 30 underground stations on the Kwun Tong Line and Tsuen Wan Line in phases. The relevant works were completed in 2006 and the total investment amounted to 2 billion yuan.

The East Rail Line originally expected the first platform gate to be put into service in 2019

The automatic platform gates of the East Rail Line have not yet been found. According to the information, MTR announced in January 2011 that gates will be installed on the entire East Rail Line and that it will be within the scope of the Neisha Central Line of the relevant project.

Two years later, the MTR formulated an overall plan timetable for the installation of the gates. It was originally expected that the first automatic platform gates would be put into service in early 2019, but the gates still have no shadows.

The preliminary works for the installation of automatic platform gates on the East Rail Line have started

The MTR has explained that since the East Rail Line will cross the sea to Admiralty Station in the future, it will switch to "nine trucks" to match the Hong Kong Island platform. The 9 trucks and 12 trucks have different door positions, and the automatic platform gates must match the new trains. The location of the doors of the trucks will not be carried out until all 12 trucks are decommissioned.

The MTR said in the middle of last year that the engineering team had already begun to install other preliminary works for the automatic platform gates, and the port would carry out the remaining measures after the replacement of new trains.

MTR's 2017 reply: If the light rail is installed with gates, the entire line must be rebuilt and reinforced on a large scale

Regarding the light rail station, in its response to the Yuen Long District Council’s enquiry in 2017, the MTR stated that the design, operation and usable space of the light rail and the heavy rail are completely different. Large-scale reconstruction and platform reinforcement works.

The width of the platform is only about 4 meters. The captain has difficulty opening and closing the door. It is hopeless to install the curtain door on the light rail platform

However, the LRT trains must share the road with other means of transportation. The platform width is generally only about 4 meters wide. After subtracting the space occupied by the platform facilities, the light rail passengers can wait on the platform with a width of only The remaining 2 to 3 meters, if the platform gate is installed, the platform space will be further narrowed, and the captain will stop at the position of the screen door to open and close the door is also technically difficult, worrying that the installation of the screen door will affect operational safety and service.

The MTR admitted at the time that it had not considered installing platform screen doors along the Light Rail.

One million people at Yue Man Square Transport Interchange used the automatic gate 10 times and failed to open and close the MTR. It is expected that the station facilities will be renovated this year, and the East Rail Line will be installed with automatic platform gates. It is said that the installation of screen doors needs to cooperate with the update of the signal system. The completion of the signal system is delayed. MTR: Ensure that the train is aligned with the platform screen door.

Source: hk1

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