First Platform Doors Coming to Yamanote Line in June 2010

[bill937ca]

JR East has tentatively announced that platform doors will go into use on the Yamanote line at Ebisu Station on Saturday June 26, 2010 and Meguro Station on Saturday August 28, 2010.

 

http://www.hobidas.com/news/article/114349.html

 

http://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2009/20100307.pdf

[David]

Ah yes, the waist high "doors". I've never been to Japan, are the Japanese significantly shorter then I've been led to believe?

[Guest ___]

I'm just wondering how these barriers will tie in with the existing end of platform railings, or how they could impede photography and videography at the far end of the platform,s. IE wrap around.

[bill937ca]

Ah yes, the waist high "doors". I've never been to Japan, are the Japanese significantly shorter then I've been led to believe?

 

I won't count on it.  Many of the baseball players coming out of Japan are 6 feet or taller. The short height may have more true of Japanese of the 1940s and 1950s when life was harder. For one thing the Japanese diet is regarded as being very good today.  Back then the diet was more subsistence than today's.

[David]

Ah yes, the waist high "doors". I've never been to Japan, are the Japanese significantly shorter then I've been led to believe?

 

I won't count on it.  Many of the baseball players coming out of Japan are 6 feet or taller. The short height may have more true of Japanese of the 1940s and 1950s when life was harder. For one thing the Japanese diet is regarded as being very good today.  Back then the diet was more subsistence than today's.

 

So they're like me - they'll bang their knees on those barriers, kneel over in pain, resulting in a fall onto the tracks.

[disturbman]

:laugh:

 

No, they won't. Or you are vey strangely shaped, having your knees at waist height like that. 

[bill937ca]

At least people in wheelchairs won't roll off the platform.  Happened on Tokyu last fall.