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JR East on Wednesday said it will install automatic safety gates on platforms at all the Yamanote Line stations over the next 10 years. The total cost is expected to be 55 billion yen, JR said.
According to JR East, the safety gates will be installed initially at Ebisu and Meguro stations by 2010. After the experimental installation, the company will consider technical improvements and proceed with the rest of the stations.
JR East has been discussing the installation of safety gates since a Korean student and a Japanese passenger were run over by a train at Shin-Okubo station in 2001, as they were tying to rescue a drunken Japanese man who fell off the platform onto the tracks.
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Sarge
Bout time!
northlondon
Lightning !
Korean hero student and Japanese passenger killed in 2001.
Safety gates installed in that station (Shin-Okubo) by 2018.
Let's see now, that's a 17 year turnaround...
smithinjapan
It'll definitely help prevent people who would fall from a gate-less platform, but it won't help with suicides, since they're only likely to be waist high. Anyway, a step up.
roughneck
Wondering if it is worth of saving drunken and suicidal people with that cost.
whatanidiot
it could also save from crazy guys who just feel like pushing someone on the track as it has been the case few weeks ago !!
capone
thats what it'll cost today, if it's the true figure...by the time it's finished it'll be double
eleewhm
time for ticket increase
westurn
Ummm, isn't it the screamin orange Chuo line that has all the suicides ?