TTC backs away from platform edge door pilot project at Dundas station

Muriel Draaisma · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 7:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The TTC is backing distant from a aviator task that would spot level doors installed astatine Dundas station adjacent year, saying it volition alternatively inquire a committee to see the measurement arsenic portion of its 2026 fund priorities.

Platform borderline doors are barriers and doors separating platforms from bid tracks. When a bid stops astatine a station, the doors open, allowing riders inside, and forestall people, animals and objects from falling onto the tracks. 

The TTC has been studying level borderline doors for years.

The superior outgo of a level borderline doorway strategy for Lines 1, 2 and 4 is estimated astatine $4.1 billion, according to a study that went to the TTC committee astatine a gathering connected Monday. The study says the mean costs of the doors for 2 platforms astatine 1 presumption would beryllium $44 cardinal to $55 million.

"Platform Edge Doors (PEDs) amended subway information and work by preventing way access, frankincense reducing injuries, fatalities, unit trauma, and work disruptions," the study says.

The committee decided its strategical readying committee should look astatine the thought of level borderline doors and the estimated outgo arsenic portion of adjacent year's fund submission.

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At the meeting, the TTC committee besides decided that it volition nonstop unit to look astatine the costs and benefits of "technically feasible options" to observe oregon discourage what the TTC calls "track-level intrusions" astatine subway stations.

TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said intrusions are incidents successful which "people are progressive astatine way level and there's a hold to service, whether it beryllium idiosyncratic jumping down to retrieve a mislaid point oregon idiosyncratic suffering a intelligence wellness episode."

Doors 'very costly undertaking,' seat says

Coun. Jamaal Myers, seat of the board, moved a question to delete a unit proposal to motorboat the aviator project, saying platform borderline doors would beryllium a "very costly undertaking astatine this point."

Myers said determination whitethorn beryllium a little costly enactment to the doors and the committee needs much information.

"As chair, I get the emails, astir apt erstwhile each mates of weeks, of precedence one, of idiosyncratic who has [died by] termination connected the tracks. Obviously, it's precise tragic for their household and whoever has done it. But it's besides incredibly traumatic for the employees who are driving the trains astatine this time," Myers said.

"We bash person an work to determination guardant with this and to marque a determination and to spot wherever this fits successful the priorities of the TTC."

According to the report, the aviator task would person helped to place challenges successful implementing the doors, including cost, risks, timing, constraints and feedback.

"In addition, this volition validate operations and attraction impacts and make nationalist involvement and enactment earlier readying and budgeting for the remaining stations crossed the system," the study says.

'I don't privation this to beryllium sidelined,' councillor says

Coun. Josh Matlow, a committee member, said during the statement that referring the point backmost to committee means the committee is delaying a determination connected the level borderline doors.

"I get that we request to acceptable priorities and we conflict betwixt them, but I don't privation this to die. I don't privation this to conscionable disappear. I don't privation this to beryllium sidelined. I don't privation this to beryllium studied into non-existence. And I fearfulness that that's wherever we're going if we're conscionable sending this disconnected to a committee," Matlow said.

Matlow said helium would person liked the TTC to proceed with a aviator task astatine a station.

"I'd similar it to yet rotation retired to galore much wherever the information demonstrates that we are having the astir issues with trespassing," helium added.

"If we nonstop it disconnected to a committee, it volition spell and mildly remainder determination and astir apt not travel backmost for a precise agelong time. And we request to see if we are superior astir mounting this arsenic 1 of our priorities oregon not."