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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We have sent off our first survey to councillor candidates for the city hall election. Check your junk mail boxes, and get those responses in! #topoli

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Someone was hit at Lorne Park on the Lakeshore West line...this is the most riskiest level crossing in the country, and it has seemingly claimed another victim... toronto.citynews.ca/2026/07/08/p...

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Regular service resumes after person struck by train near Clarkson GO

Significant delays are expected on the Lakeshore West GO line after a person was struck by a train near Clarkson GO in Mississauga

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We need PSDs! Thank you for your advocacy.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Riders were at the TTC Board today! We spoke up in favour of real platform edge doors, more compassionate approaches to community safety, and against the deployment of enforcement in subways. Good day to speak up for safer transit ✊😌

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Maybe Bradford and @joshmatlow.bsky.social could make a second motion at council this month...a bit more explicit in it's request... 1) Fund Platform Doors - we want the pilot funded, and a list of options to fund the rest of the 10 priority doors 2) Withhold Funding for Fences

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The TTC Board seems to have stymied Bradford's platform doors motion from last month at council. Instead of developing a 10 year funded plan, we will be developing a 10 year *costed* plan - which is essentially what we have now...an unfunded plan...

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

50m per station for screen doors isn't even so bad that it wouldn't make sense to do the two busiest / narrowest platform stations left per year. We spend more on less valuable things.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

See something...say something... We encourage friends, family, current/former staff, first responders, doctors, mental health professionals and customers who have witnessed or been impacted by incidents on the TTC that could have been prevented by doors, to speak/write to the TTC Board on June 3

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I wish we had higher standards and just went and did platform screen doors like Delhi and Sao Paulo and Tokyo instead of throwing good money after bad

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Toronto is too slow. This subway line moves more people than the 401 and it appears to operate worse every single year.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

These new steel barriers are a step in the right direction, but they cannot substitute the safety and reliability benefits of real platform edge doors. Back in October, City Councillors voted to defer a plan to install platform edge doors at TMU station due to costs and insufficient funding.

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Barriers to be installed on platform at Toronto subway station this year, mayor says

Mayor Olivia Chow says a new pilot project will see steel barriers installed at one downtown subway station this year to prevent people from falling or jumping onto the tracks, an initiative similar t...

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Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Candidate Chow trying to short-circuit Bradford's call for platform doors in the cheapest manner possible.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This reminded us that you can in fact do platform fences, that are also platform doors...the Disney Monorail (and essentially all theme parks use this design)...Toronto can't even do this...they usually cost $5000-$10000 per gate...

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Chad Leddy @chadleddy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The TTC needs to pick better peers. Using the NY MTA as a model is BAD - they are among the world leaders in costs, & partial barriers & AI detection are not going to stop people trespassing or doing self-harm from getting on the track. Can we make healthier choices and look up to Paris instead?

A screengrab from a pedestrian observations article showing Paris built actual platform edge door systems - not random partial fences - for low cost, while the MTA, which has built none, thinks they costs $75m cdn or more. For some reason, we are choosing to emulate New York.

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Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com · 27/05/2026

Announcing the class 5 estimate is like procurement suicide

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Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com · 27/05/2026

Toronto’s transit cost disease has hit… metal fences. Just a reminder that $2M CAD is about the cost of half height PSGs for one platform in Hong Kong. Then we use NYC to justify our wild cost estimates for actual screen doors. The incuriosity and Anglo echo-chamber here is astounding.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 27/05/2026

so uhh..I'd much rather those $20 million be thrown to installing real and effective PEDs, not fences. if our costs were normal, they'd fund TMU and a couple stations. if our costs were bad it'd fund just TMU. still a good proof of concept. but we're not "affording" even a single station, are we?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Kind of feels like the City has a real problem with doing stuff

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just for context the city of Toronto spent 130m$ for temporary seating at BMO field for FIFA…20m$/game…but can’t spend 50m$/station (inflated estimate) for permanent platform doors that will benefit 1m people a day forever….

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

NYC platform fence cost: 100k usd Toronto platform fence cost: 2m cad NYC platforms 50-150 ft longer What are we doing? #topoli

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 27/05/2026

Oh dear, station fences are spreading...

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We have a platform door report coming to council! Here are our thoughts…. 1) we have a priority list! 2) we are going to install fences, not doors at 10 stations, total cost 20m$!!! 3) TMU and Bloor are proceeding with doors, 6m$ to get to 60% design

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Platform screen doors would keep that litter off the tracks @ttcdoors.bsky.social

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Not Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Platform doors and washrooms? Yes, these are good. High ceilings? This is silly and just adds cost. Commuter lots? This is actively bad. We need housing near transit, not car storage. The solution to getting people out of cars is not making more room for cars.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

TTC’s Easier Access project will be finished within two years or less. The next EA-style program for them on subways could be PSDs (and corresponding CBTC on Lines 2 and then 4 when extended). And on streetcars, a program of switch upgrades.

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Malcolm MacMahon @amacmahon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I compared my grades to the dumbest kid in the class, and I'm doing about as well as him.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In Istanbul, all the new metro lines have platform doors. It doesn't seem like it should be that hard, at least for new lines.

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hahahahahaha. We compared to the transit agency with the worst costs on the planet and found that our numbers were in the same ballpark so it's ok.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The TTC Board is AWOL on this...should have had a report next week...instead we are comparing our costs to NYC...

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

MTA doesn't have any platform doors...and frankly we shouldn't be looking to the most expensive systems in the world for cost comparisons...France, Japan and South Korea are better examples...should be closer to 5m$/station...

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is a severe undercount by TTC Staff..you can look at the TTC's stats here: www.platformdoors.info/delay-estima... doors would have prevented about 2500 hours of delays...600 hours if we just are focused on trespassing...

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Safety should never be aspirational...

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Lol…”there isn’t enough space”, “ada issues”, “it costs too much”…

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are looking for photos of the new stations - specifically the platform doors - to update our Canadian tracker…

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The city says platform doors will be expensive because we will need to rebuild the crumbling platforms. Guess what - we are going to have to rebuild them anyways… Maybe we should get working on it before the wood rots completely…

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The TTC has cancelled the meeting of the strategic planning committee for this month. We were hoping to get an update on platform doors and more information on budgeting for them.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Transport Canada should legislate this country wide...or withhold money from provinces that don't mandate it (if they can't due to constitutional issues)...

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Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The 510 Spadina car recently had some transit signal priority changes allowing streetcars to precede left turns at three locations. The results were not impressive and more work is needed to speed service on this key route. stevemunro.ca/2026/04/06/t... (1/2)

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

As best I can tell, they only changed the order of the phases at the three intersections on Spadina. Which I think would be consistent with no improvement.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Alright Vancouver and Montreal friends…what do we need to know about the state of platform doors in your city? Have there been any reports? Links to stats? Votes? Which politicians support them and which don’t? Toronto is moving forward, but the more the merrier!

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randomperson Fire Alarms @randompersonfire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

In no small part due to these gates, it's never had a guest fatality in over 50 years of operation. (And for platforms with a "wall of columns", which some transit systems have a lot of, retrofitting these gates would be very easy.)

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Platform screen doors also would help prevent this very specific chronic issue on the Forest Park Branch

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Vee💎 @nonbirimelody.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Why don’t our subways have platform screen doors because ngl a certain thought has crossed my mind one too many times

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We encourage everyone to submit comments in support of platform doors on the city council website. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen... and click submit comments.

secure.toronto.ca

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The question is not how do we afford to build platform doors. The question is how do we afford to not build platform doors….once you understand the significant and increasing costs of the status quo the solution is very obvious…

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Here is the motion on platform doors. We fully support this, and believe that getting construction started within a year is doable. The challenge here is that the budget process won’t be complete until February 2027. Which means they will have very little time to ramp this up.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

From the looks of this, most of this money is going to accessibility and signage improvements. Very unlikely that any of that will lead to faster or more reliable commutes for the vast majority of customers. We need to be spending money reducing delays and increasing safety to do that.

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TTC Platform Doors @ttcdoors.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One of the nice things about getting platform doors done on the Skytrain in Vancouver is that because the stations are so much smaller, it would cost way less than in Toronto. Some of these stations are busy…surprised they haven’t done it to simplify the automation!

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