The protective barriers are part of a pilot program meant to stop riders from falling — or being pushed — onto the train tracks.
who was shoved onto the Times Square subway tracks last year.
“This board — and this entire organization — were consumed by that tragedy and remain so,” Jamie Torres-Springer, president of MTA construction and development, said at a meeting in March. He alluded to the platform doors as one of several programs the city is using to help prevent incidents like this in the future.
The protective platform doors are set to be installed at the Times Square 7 train, the Third Avenue L train and the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue E train stop. The Platform Screen Door Pilot Installation program is estimated to cost more than $100 million,The MTA declined to share a specific date for when the construction would begin.
And in stations that are too old for this new technology, Lieber said the city is taking other precautions, including installing cameras at the front of trains in order “to provide the same kind of protection as platform doors.” Only 128 of 472 stations can accommodate the platform screen doors — and would cost an estimated $7 billion to construct,
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