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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Slightly less standing room at the very edge of the platform (where virtually nobody stands in the first place) seems a small price to pay for ending suicides medical emergencies and all the crowding/delays that come with them.
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So instead of jumping in front of the train he just jumps off the end of the platform to the street below. It just moves the problem somewhere else.
It is not the responsibility of the transit authority to deal with mental health problems. It's their job to be critical of those who are in a position to direct these people to seek help so they aren't constantly out with the garbage bag and spatula trying to reduce downtime.
I get the idea of it but in a system where we are constantly working to make the safety systems as unintrusive as possible I just don't see it as necessary.
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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
the train system itself is hard wired, a closed system. it doesn't connect to the internet so it cannot be hacked. anything built today is now connected to the internet. our train system predates the need to connect everything to the internet, that's why many many kms of fibre-optics were run back in the early 80s.
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There has been speculation that after the MK I's are phased out that the upgrade to the newer Innovia systems will move signalling and control to the wireless (802.11 subset?) standards they are currently deploying elsewhere in the world right now. I believe London's new system uses it and the MK III's have the option of using that instead of leaky coax but as of right now we did not order any new trains with the option installed.
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