Platform doors for elevated Singapore MRT stations

Platform doors for elevated Singapore MRT stations

THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will spend more than $126 million to install platform screen doors at elevated MRT stations to prevent track intrusions.
The 1.5m-high doors will go up first at Yishun, Jurong East and Pasir Ris MRT stations by the fourth quarter of next year.

By 2012, the remaining 33 above-ground stations of the North-South and East-West lines will be progressively fitted with the doors, said the LTA in a statement this week.

It said installation works will be carried out at night when trains are not running so that commuters will not be inconvenienced.

The decision to install the doors comes after a rise in the number of cases of people falling onto the tracks, whether intentionally or otherwise.

Track intrusions have gone up from an average of 16 cases a year in 2004 and 2005 to 30 in 2006 and 31 last year.

In January, the Government announced that it will install doors at elevated MRT stations to cut down on such track intrusions.

It is also spending $29 million to install more closed-circuit television cameras at train stations.

Singapore Technologies Electronics has been awarded the $112.3 million job to design and make the doors.

The company, which is also involved in the upcoming Circle Line, has worked on similar projects in places such as Taiwan, China and Thailand.

A second contract, worth $13.9 million, was awarded to Westinghouse Brake and Signal Holdings to provide the signalling interface for the platform screen doors to ensure that they are synchronised with train doors.

Source : Straits Times - 03 Sept 2008

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