Rendering of platform edge doors

November-December 2010

Commissioners approved in principle the recommendations in a report for a business case to install platform edge doors in the subway system. The project will be considered in the 2011-2015 Capital Program.

The installation of platform edge doors is closely co-ordinated with the re-signalling of the Yonge-University-Spadina Subway. Installation is scheduled to start in 2013 with the completion of the Yonge-University Loop by 2015. The second phase of construction would see platform edge doors installed on the rest of the Y-U-S line starting in 2020.

Last September, the TTC conducted a feasibility study for the installation of platform edge doors and recommended partially segregated, full-height edge doors for the subway system. Platform edge doors improve operating efficiency, prevent combustible debris from collecting at track level and prevent unauthorized persons from descending, or unintentionally falling, to track level. Platform edge doors are also an effective means of suicide prevention.