I'm open to be corrected on this one, but I believe her plan is for the barriers to be a foot or two back from the edge of the platform. The theory being that the platform doors would initially remain closed while the subway doors open, allowing passengers to squeeze their way along this narrow passage, either to the ends of the platform or to alternating exit platform doors, offset from the entering doors.
Once those leaving have cleared, then the entering platform doors would open and those waiting to board will not have to push their way past those streaming out (hence the nomenclature of "separated flow which can only happen with safety").
How this will not lead to serious choke points for those exiting (claustrophobia anyone?), let alone do anything to cut the dwell time, remains a complete mystery to me. I'm sure there will never be an over-sized or over-burdened passenger stuck between the platform barrier and the train.
But then I may have completely misunderstood her explanation, like the ignorant fool I am.
Asterix,
As far as the lobby list. Actually, I did try getting on that list, I some how messed it up. So the intent was there. and I haven't attempted it again.
Everything for me is a little unusual and dicey. Mostly because of some of the things I have uncovered while inventing.
But the main thing is, I don't actually have a product to sell unless it is OFFICIALLY, UNIQUE, NOVEL, & USEFUL, in otherwords, first in the world in the mind of the US and Canadian Patent Officials. This takes some time.
To date, not one person, anywhere within my research or people I have wrote to , or spoken with have said, Oh, this isn't new, they are already doing this in................ Or we are researching this right now. etc.
I have spoken to transit agency people around the world, several associations, train specialies, train suppliers & manufactures, queing specialists, and hundreds of hours researching on the net.
NOT ONE HAS TOLD ME THIS IS NOT UNIQUE. The fact is, look at how ridiculour Japan is doing it. They spend an extra 30 seconds in dwell time, just to squeeze in ten extra people, with those "white glove" stuffers.
Let's look at Yonge & Bloor specifically. No, it would not be 1 or 2 feet back from the edge. In this scenerio, it would be a straight wall, all along the inner portions of those floor diamonds. The diamond corner closet to the platform edge. Can everyone visualize this. Well Monday morning, look at the platform floor and say to yourself, HHmmm, let's pretend we have a straight wall, all along these diamond corners, and then we would visualize about 10 foot openings (walkthrough sections) and IN SECTION, THEN AN OUT SECTION, THEN AND IN SECTION ETC.
All the OUT sections doors open first, while all this in section people are behind the wall where all the IN SECTIONS ARE, about 15 seconds later, the IN SECTIONS DOORS OPEN, AND NOW WE WOULD LIKELY HAVE A 30- 40 SECOND DWELL AT YONGE AND BLOOR.
All Platform Doors close first, then the train doors second. All door charging is eliminated. All double cycling of doors eliminated. All Extended dwell time, since the Train (middle guy) isn't sitting there watching a boarding making a mad dash for the train door isn't, holding up the entire train, as he does not want to shut the doors on that passenger's face.
Further to this, would be a set of say red flashing lights on the inner platform doors, warning the people these doors are closing in say 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, just like the warning sign on cross walks.
The point of all of this, the platform has been chaotic, unpleasant, a push and shove, unsafe, uncomfortable, unrealistic, rude, need I go on. And no one, I don't think have figured a way using a "physical component" to "separate passenger flow" and actually bring order and efficiency to the platform.
I have a different solution for all the other platforms. But fixing Yonge & Bloor is an Ultimate & Key Needed Solution. I think, and honestly think I hold it. No one has shown me otherwise, for not want of trying. If it is out there, please tell me, so that I can stop my "OBSESSION".
"You fix a hub of a city, you fix an entire city", this is a quote, my quote to which was in my July 29th, 2008 letter originally addressed to the Toronto Transit Commission. It was TTC who did not know how to handle my question, do you buy ideas from the public? It was TTC who told me to patent it, and then bring it back to us.
I have just been patient, taken some interesting "abuse" from certain TTC staff, get told the case is closed, when in reality it was never opened in the first place. Innovation can be done, by just a letter or a phone call. That evidence is even clear by all these blogs. Are they called blogs? I don't even know.
So does anyone know if there is "separated passenger flow" for "single sided platforms" using an "apparatus" anywhere in the world? This is what I have patent pending, in an extremely shortened description, not encompasssing everything.
Lastly, one thing I know for sure, anyone I have met in person, they are blown away.
Safety solves all....................Safety creates all !!!
What was once considered a waste of money, these people don't matter, relative to the cost of "protection", and relative to this "so called" small percentage, turns out to be the KEY TO MOVING THE MASSES..........YOU MUST HAVE SAFETY !!!!
It used to be considered, non sensicle, non affordable, and non reasonable to fix. Now efficiency is everything to do with safety.
Now safety is available TODAY, IS needed YESTERDAY, and is totally cost effective. Let alone opens the door for the capability of moving an extra 1 MILLION PASSENGERS DAILY, AND BALANCING YOUR BOOKS, WITH AN EXTRA 1 BILLION IN THE BANK YEARLY. This is what TTC is going to learn in my meeting. How easy this is. and how affordable it is. and that it is available TODAY, not 15 to 25 years from now,...the course they are have no other option for, unless they use 'NEW TECHNOLOGY'...."SEPARATED PASSENGER FLOW".
sHARON.
bY THE way , I'm not smiling because I am coy. I am smiling only because that's my personality. My nick name growing up wall "smiley".
