platform-edge door

— They’ll have elevators for disabled and elderly passengers, some heating (existing stations are not heated) and they’ll be safer, thanks to platform-edge doors. […] “When you have an open platform, you have a real risk of young children, seniors or people with disabilities falling off the edge,” said Jim Berry, facilities engineering manager for the expansion program. “And there are people who simply use the train system to end their lives,” he said. “Platform-edge doors simply eliminate the possibility of that happening.”