Subway platform with glass barriers – Paris, France (file / credit: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Many cities around the world, including Paris, have glass barriers on at least some of their train platforms.
WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb On The Story
Earlier this week, New York City Transit president Thomas Prendergast said the agency was considering the installation of the sliding platform edge doors that open when a train is in the station.
But now MTA chairman Joseph Lhota is saying hang on a minute.
“The idea came out at the transit committee meeting. They’re quite expensive and given the 496 stations, I think that’s the number, it’d be quite prohibitive,” Lhota told WCBS 880 reporter Rich Lamb. “We’ll look at a lot of things, but it’s not something I think we’ll see, quite honestly, in your lifetime or my lifetime, but we will look at it.”
In 2011, 147 riders were hit by New York City subway trains.
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