Tetchytyke
Veteran Member
I don't think I ever heard of someone being killed in a lift or on an escalator in the UK, and if there was I suspect they just fell down the latter like they could have done a flight of regular stairs.
There aren't many deaths, but they do happen, including someone killed at a London gym about ten years ago when the lift malfunctioned and dragged them into the gap between the door and the wall.
There was a case in Spain very recently where a woman in hospital who had just given birth was chopped in half as the lift malfunctioned and shot upwards whilst her trolley was half in and half out of the lift.
Yes, agreed. It's difficult to see what all the fuss is about.
Where Metro systems are designed, in entirety, to be staff-free, there may be fewer issues. A walkway in the tunnel helps (something Glasgow doesn't have).
"The fuss" is about those instances where something happens between stations requiring evacuation or incident control. We saw with Thameslink at Kentish Town that one person is not capable of safely managing a situation where a train breaks down between stations. No staff at all isn't going to make it better.
How many PTI incidents have other unattended metro systems in the world had?
It isn't just (or even mainly) about PTI incidents, though. Look at the experiences of the staff-free Dubai Metro: every time their signalling system falls over, trains get trapped for hours.