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“Experimental” safety barriers trialled on New York subway platform

January 24, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed yellow safety barriers in a subway station to mitigate “intrusions” onto the train tracks. The bright yellow barriers are part of a safety pilot program monitored by New York City Transit (NYCT), which the organisation will study and scale up if successful. “It’s still in an experimental phase,”

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Kilometres of suicide-deterrent nets installed under Golden Gate Bridge

January 18, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio MacDonald Architects has designed the safety nets recently installed on each side of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to prevent people from jumping from its sides. Designed by MacDonald Architects on behalf of Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (GGBHT) – the state district that manages the bridge, the deterrent

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Texas senator proposes design measures to “harden schools” in wake of Uvalde shooting

May 27, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
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US senator Ted Cruz has said that schools should be redesigned to have a single door guarded by armed police to prevent further shootings following the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas. Speaking to a local news program outside the school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting on 24

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