Woman's leg gets caught between train & MRT platform
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STOMPer Manjande realized a woman's leg had become caught between the train and MRT platform at Bugis after he heard several people screaming.
The STOMPer elaborates:
"Woman falls between train and MRT platform gap.
"This happened on Friday, June 1 between 5.15pm to 5.30pm at Bugis station.
"When I alighted from the MRT, I heard people screaming so I went back and saw this woman's leg trapped between the platform and the train. I called out to the passengers inside the train to press the emergency button.
"I asked the woman to calm down because she was crying. A few children inside the train carriage were also crying. I'm not sure if the woman knew the children. Two women, apparently the woman's friends, were comforting her.
"Around 5 minutes later, an SMRT employee came down." -
I wonder how the girl leg trapped between the platform
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she never mind the platform gap
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She never minded the platform gap.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
She never minded the platform gap.
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now a lot of people like to play iphone while walking. must be like that then drop in shit hole. the gap in between mrt and station not vey big - 4d also not so chun.
its people like these that add to casuse in MRT down time.
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So now blame the government and the SMRT.
And then spend a few million dollars to make sure the stations are idiot proof.
Look at the gap in the London train.
Btw, also notice the train is not packed.
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Originally posted by mancha:
So now blame the government and the SMRT.
And then spend a few million dollars to make sure the stations are idiot proof.
Look at the gap in the London train.
Btw, also notice the train is not packed.
Cos their platform is not straightened like ours... -
how like that?? so removed the train or removed the leg??
or poured knife oil down as lub? -
Originally posted by sbst275:
Cos their platform is not straightened like ours...Its strange how our MRT has such straight and levelled platforms, and the blasting of the announcements in the trains, and all over the stations, but people still can stick their feet into the gap.
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
how like that?? so removed the train or removed the leg??
or poured knife oil down as lub?To be honest, I reckon the above event didn't last longer than 10 minutes.
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lucky not my leg
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A lot of people here have a strange way of walking. In London , the US and Europe when people walk into the trains they take strides and lift their feet off the ground. Asians tend to walk in a "shuffling mode" taking very small shuffling steps- a bit of a lazy way of walking! They take their time shuffling into the MRT and try to remain near the door instead of striding in and getting right inside! So when they shuffle in small steps , they have a greater chanc eof getting their feet caught in between the gaps because they don't lift their feet off the ground when walking!
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Another commuter gets leg stuck between train and MRT platform
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chang siew sum hung kwack - in cantonese.
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Originally posted by Bikeforceful:
A lot of people here have a strange way of walking. In London , the US and Europe when people walk into the trains they take strides and lift their feet off the ground. Asians tend to walk in a “shuffling mode” taking very small shuffling steps- a bit of a lazy way of walking! They take their time shuffling into the MRT and try to remain near the door instead of striding in and getting right inside!
So when they shuffle in small steps , they have a greater chanc eof getting their feet caught in between the gaps because they don’t lift their feet off the ground when walking!Yeah that might be true.
Frankly, I get irritated when perfectly-fit people shuffle their feet on the ground. That's a sign of laziness. Unless you have a leg injury or something, you should follow what your good ol' BMT sergeant said: DIG YOUR BOOTS.
And once you have a 'dig your boots' mentality, you would want to lift your feet off the ground. Eventually it just becomes second nature.
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generally singaporeans walk haphazardly
lack of direction....anyhow walk, suddenly turn right or left and bang into someone
walk like a turtle....enuff said
block passageways....how stupid can you get when in a crowded corridor or passageway u simply stop and decide to hold a group conversation with your friends
shuffle their feet as mentioneded above
lack of awareness...damn right in front of the person trying to siam and he or she can still bang into me
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I read the report the other day in the news that commuters think that the size of the gap should be reduced down from 7-10cm to just 1cm.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Motoring/Story/A1Story20120611-351731.html
If it was so easy to reduce it down to 1cm, might as well just make it a 0.010" gap, and get it over with.
We are pretty fortunate our MRT station platforms are nicely leveled already. To narrow down that gap to 1cm is an engineering feat itself.
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Times are bad.
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More people are starting to fall into the cracks.
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Originally posted by ditzy:
I read the report the other day in the news that commuters think that the size of the gap should be reduced down from 7-10cm to just 1cm.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Motoring/Story/A1Story20120611-351731.html
If it was so easy to reduce it down to 1cm, might as well just make it a 0.010" gap, and get it over with.
We are pretty fortunate our MRT station platforms are nicely leveled already. To narrow down that gap to 1cm is an engineering feat itself.
Ignorant fools.
As an engineer myself I know that 1 cm is really not feasible. Considering the vibrations of the MRT even at the best of times, a 1 cm gap is going to lead to a lot of damaged trains.
7 to 10 cm is already pretty narrow. Just mind the gap and dig your boots.
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Who's feet smaller then 10 cm sia?
I hope the media dun make it sound like getting the leg into the crack is soooo common and easy... How many times did U see such things happening??? None in my lifetime...
@ah lau: I totally agree... Those with earphones are like totally in another dimension... walking like zombie like tat...
then are also ppl who walk ard, suddenly break, look at phone etc etc...
Today morning I taking escalator, I was walking so I walk on the right, then suddenly got ppl wan to cut in from the left, directly knock into me sia, somemore behind me still got ppl, it's not like got no ppl...
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today got another case
and SMRT has to explain why no way there can be no or small gaps... because of the train movement
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I think its just a passing trend. In the past 10 years till now, how many cases of people getting their feet into gap that made it in the papers have you come across?
And within this month, got 3 alone, see the trend here?
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Originally posted by ditzy:
I think its just a passing trend. In the past 10 years till now, how many cases of people getting their feet into gap that made it in the papers have you come across?
And within this month, got 3 alone, see the trend here?
A worrying trend though..