Scott Feeney: As people react to the horrible crime of someone getting pushed in front of a BART train, worth noting platform screen doors prevent this and are standard in subways around the world. BART decided against them because $24m was too expensive. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

As people react to the horrible crime of someone getting pushed in front of a BART train, worth noting platform screen doors prevent this and are standard in subways around the world. BART decided against them because $24m was too expensive. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

BART shelves costly plan for barrier to keep people off trackswww.sfchronicle.com The idea was complicated, but the need seemed clear: a see-through wall between the BART...

Meanwhile, hardening fare gates to better exclude people who can't afford BART's highest-in-the-nation fares will cost $90 million. www.bart.gov/about/projec...

New Fare Gates & Station Hardening | Bay Area Rapid Transitwww.bart.gov

Turns out the $24m estimate for PSDs was, unfortunately, *per station*, BUT it would be cheaper now that 2-car trains are retired, and if they used mid-height rather than full-height doors for the outdoor stations.

wow yeah that's so complicated! you definitely didn't completely convey the entire concept in a single sentence Rachel Swan. really gonna have to put my thinking cap on to wrap my head around this one..

They are not 'standard in subways around the world'. Please do not smoke on the platform.

we don't have this in nyc. at least since i've been there in ~2013. in fact i recall doing the damm fool thing of running across two sub platform level tracks to meet my friend on the opposit side instead of running up to street level and across that way and down again. ah to be young and foolish

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