Transport Canada should legislate this country wide...or withhold money from provinces that don't mandate it (if they can't due to constitutional issues)...

The 510 Spadina car recently had some transit signal priority changes allowing streetcars to precede left turns at three locations. The results were not impressive and more work is needed to speed service on this key route. stevemunro.ca/2026/04/06/t... (1/2)

As best I can tell, they only changed the order of the phases at the three intersections on Spadina. Which I think would be consistent with no improvement.

Alright Vancouver and Montreal friends…what do we need to know about the state of platform doors in your city? Have there been any reports? Links to stats? Votes? Which politicians support them and which don’t? Toronto is moving forward, but the more the merrier!

In no small part due to these gates, it's never had a guest fatality in over 50 years of operation. (And for platforms with a "wall of columns", which some transit systems have a lot of, retrofitting these gates would be very easy.)

Platform screen doors also would help prevent this very specific chronic issue on the Forest Park Branch

Why don’t our subways have platform screen doors because ngl a certain thought has crossed my mind one too many times

We encourage everyone to submit comments in support of platform doors on the city council website. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen... and click submit comments.

The question is not how do we afford to build platform doors. The question is how do we afford to not build platform doors….once you understand the significant and increasing costs of the status quo the solution is very obvious…

Here is the motion on platform doors. We fully support this, and believe that getting construction started within a year is doable. The challenge here is that the budget process won’t be complete until February 2027. Which means they will have very little time to ramp this up.

From the looks of this, most of this money is going to accessibility and signage improvements. Very unlikely that any of that will lead to faster or more reliable commutes for the vast majority of customers. We need to be spending money reducing delays and increasing safety to do that.

One of the nice things about getting platform doors done on the Skytrain in Vancouver is that because the stations are so much smaller, it would cost way less than in Toronto. Some of these stations are busy…surprised they haven’t done it to simplify the automation!

New doors just waiting for customers!

La dernière fois que j'ai pris le métro à montparnasse il n'était pas encore automatisé. Maintenant il y a les portes palières. Ca veut dire que je n'ai pas pris le métro 4 depuis au moins 2019😅. Bon la dernière fois j'ai pris le velib😅

with the way last budget went, it's understandable that mayor chow didn't want to spend money on big money items, but i hope PSDs become a universal policy position across political leanings next election. and I'm sure it will. it's an obvious safety solution.

100%. We hope the major gets on board and brings a faster plan with funding.

The health impacts are significant! But it’s the quality of life improvements that really make this worth doing.

I can think of a few bus depots in Toronto that could benefit from this type of design.

Checkout our new ward profiles… www.platformdoors.info/ward-profiles/ to learn about the relative risk of priority ones, trespass and fires in each of the cities wards.

@ryanskinner.com any chance you could add the accessibility alerts to @ttcalerts.bsky.social ? This would make it line up more with the X account which also notifies on elevator outages...(thanks for running the account btw!)

We've taken the TTC Business case for doors (blue) and applied a 10 cent surcharge for 3 years (green). This would allow for 500m$/debt on 120m$ of cash flow over the three years) - after which it would be covered by the benefits from platform doors (which would be more than 40m$/yr by yr 5)

read in the papers an unleashed dog went inside BART tracks to cause a major delay and had a flashing vision that one day we will get Platform Screen Doors in the Bay Area too and we will ask what took so long for something so obvious

Transit riders support platform doors (hint to all the politicians out there)

Shanghai platform door stats are off the hook. Look how fast they installed them and how much impact it had.

Here is our estimate of the cost of todays priority one...at least 270k$ in presto from the impacted stations...much more on buses and people who got stranded...#topoli as with all of these delays, the social costs are way more significant than the actual presto loss to the #ttc

Hey #topoli to all the journalists out there reporting on the delays today. It’s important to: 1) be clear that suicides are preventable on the subway system and are in fact prevented in most systems 2) the responsibility of the board to mitigate 🧵

How about we automate our non-existent train platform doors first.

@pfrazee.com can we please get automatic in place translation on iOS. We are getting tired of hitting the translate button. Should be an extremely easy change, and can fall back to the existing system when translation data hasn’t been downloaded.

Platform door gap monster!

Before you install the platform doors, the platform can be prepared for their installation - this looks very clean. This reduces the need for shut downs, and allows for broken doors to be removed temporarily if needed for maintenance or servicing.

These slat style platform doors reduce wind pressure, which may be needed in some situations.

Some new platform doors being installed in Japan.

Wow!!!!

RE: https://aus.social/@timrichards/116117088972135739 Platform screen doors are like a cheat code for nice looking stations.

Wow! Toronto could be added to the list. But we will need to push the politicians to do it.

Seems reasonable to want this.

This is a great article that Toronto should learn from.

The current Seoul mayor, Oh Se-hoon, features most frequently in my Substack writings than any figure. A moderate conservative, Oh was instrumental in the roll-out of Platform Screen Doors to all Seoul Metro stations in his first two terms in 2006-2011 www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

twenty-three years ago today, 192 passengers were killed in an arson attack in Daegu Metro in South Korea. this tragedy profoundly reshaped the country's public transit safety approach and was critical in the development of Platform Screen Doors in its Metros www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-seoul-...

Platform screen doors, my beloved

Happens every day with platform doors.

Or better yet, mandate platform screen doors for all transit systems with third rail (or other electrified trackway), regardless of operator. (This would belong in the National Building Code of Canada or the Ontario amendments to that code.)

The only transit line in Toronto with full platform doors on all stations. Maybe the GTAA should be given control of the TTC….

Really cool...

Support our GitHub proposal to get platform doors added to the GTFS Spec. github.com/google/trans...

If the yellow line warning system is off. The board should be signing off on that. Major safety system that the board was touting in place of platform doors. Is this true @paulainslie.bsky.social @diannesaxe.bsky.social ???

Remember that if cat town can have platform doors on their subway…surely hog town can as well…

Platform screen doors now!

Subway in Hamburg: Why there are no platform screen doors at the stops https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/politik/article411094528/u-bahn-in-hamburg-warum-es-keine-bahnsteigtueren-an-den-haltestellen-gibt.html more news at: https://hamburgnews.observer

I found this interesting, because here in Montreal two underground REM stations in particular (McGill, Édouard Montpetit) have pretty incredible sound absorption + platform screen doors, making even reasonably crowded platforms very quiet. /cc @ianvisits.co.uk www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/pad...