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Kate 07:49 on 2019-10-15 Permalink Reply  

• Roman 08:10 on 2019-10-15 Permalink

  In Taipei they can build an entire subway line, in seismic active region in about the same time. It’s ridiculous.

• Kate 08:15 on 2019-10-15 Permalink

  To be fair, the STM has other pressing matters, like retrofitting elevators into stations never conceived for them, the issue whether to extend the orange line now, the extension of the blue line, maybe adding trams, which it hasn’t operated since 1956, the creation of the potential pink line and more.

  I am not a fan of those barriers, but I have to accept that it’s an idea whose time has come and they’ll be installed here.

• Francesco 03:26 on 2019-10-18 Permalink

  Why are you not a fan? I agree they may change the aesthetics of the very few stations with dazzling architectural features visible from platforms, but in reality commuters are not on the metro for the architecture. I’ve seen it reported that studies show how platform screen doors could reduce delays on the Orange Line by more than 50%, and would virtually eliminate accidental or intentional access to the tracks and this save a non-trivial number of lives each year.