subway safety
Not really. any barrier sealed enough to contain heated or cooled air would promptly break anytime a train passed through [read, the glass would shatter]. If the glass was strong enough not to shatter, when the barrier was opened the pressure differential would create an unpleasant wind tunnel.
Plus, the barrier reflected in the patent proposal documents does not provide a full barrier anyways with open space at the very end for passenger exiting.
Moving on to the patents, wow - the system might be able to be installed at a handleful of stations. Even then, you have to think of this: When passenger screen doors were designed for other systems, even for new build systems, why did none come out looking like yours? As for cost, you seem to be leaving out the cost to retrofit the ceilings of stations to support your contraptions, and engineering the system to fit in all the different ceilings for different different roof heights. Also, I would think the system would have to adapt to the different slopes on every platform. A fair bet would be that every system would have to be custom designed. Also, the test work to prove that the system would reliably operate for lets say 3 months of normal use without maintenance would be expensive. Also, your system would require some sort of wireless interaction between the operators and the lift since conductors/passengers guards don't sit in the same car on every train, trains stop in different places on the platform, and new trains will only have humans at two ends.
Now on to the actual passenger flow - did you every stop to think that you are causing almost every rider to walk at best a half platform length and at worse a full platform length when they are getting off the train? needing to clear disembarking passengers from the 'safety zone' before opening up the loading doors will add a fair amount of dwell time, not decrease it. Not only that, but you also force all unloading passengers through choke points at the ends of platforms, forcing them also to interact once again with the loading people. Given that the loading waiting zone will be even more crowded due to the lost space of the safety zone, you are just transferring the 'hustle and bustle' of loading to the platform.
I still think the station idea has merit and would actually work (if you continued to skip stations downtown), and that might be a patentable idea. But what your ''flow' patent application is not is technically innovative, or a new idea (think about isolated passenger flow for 'swing gates' at airports.)
There is an answer to every question.
One must first admit two things.
One do we have a problem?
Yes.........you can't walk anywhere safe in the city. You can't drive, ....gridlock. And you don't move. On the transit system. there are delays virtually every single day....wherethere you realize or not.
The city is not moving. And what move there is, is not moving well.
The second thing that needs to be admitted, is we must find BIG SOLUTION, for this BIG PROBLEM.
Adding new extention lines to TTC only exasperates the exiting problems we have.
I have 3 patent pending inventions unique to subway platforms that improve passenger flow and provide cost effective safety.
This patent application is the first, and how ammendments to it.which will not show on the original application.
There is a reasonable answer to every concern. Hurricane doors are only $400 dollars extra per unit if the tunnel pressure is great enough to require it. There are other solutions too that can minimize tunnel pressure. ie. Widen the tunnel opening at the train entrance, provide release holes to reduce the tunnel pressure.
There are answers to all problems. There first must be a will to move the move more efficiently, more reliably, and more safely.
Why is every one a critic. The BIG SOLUTION is here to move the masses. You must first provide safety in order to station skip. This is either a portion, or all or none of what I have created. I believe the fact that the safety is no longer on the edge and the fact that passenger flow is "physically" separated is the key to setting the stage, for staging your train, and providing extreme cost effective platform safety. Right now there are primariliy two products for platform safety. One at 10 million dollars a station and my invention which has a range from about $200,000 and $800,000 per station. The invention also and most important accommodates the fact that you do not need ATC, precision braking or uniform rolling stock,...this is where the "uniqueness" and "novelty" comes in.and of course the "separated passenger flow".
It is impossible to commute passengers reliably, efficiently, effectively and safely, without platform safety.
What was previously seen as too costly, unfeasible, non sensicle, and non productive is NOW the KEY.
On the first day of operation, about 90% or more will immediately be surprized. Awe, I got to work in 15 minutes, a week goes by WOW, I am still getting to work in 15 minutes. A month, two months, three months go by, UNBELIEVABLE, I have got to work every day, without fail, in 15 minutes. Oh yes, I guess there was one morning it was about 22 minutes. Where now that same rider every day is between say 30 minutes and 45 minutes and say 1 hour or more on occassion.
Those door prices are a mass order which is the precise cost it is for Wallmart. for a 18 footer. This is why I will not yet sell it to a door manufacturer until I am met with the transit agencies direct such that there are no ridiculous middle man charges. This is about the people and their fair price, not to have middle men charge 3million per station for the job just because they are the "middle man", when in reality they are just everyday automated doors or even if need be everyday automated doors with a hurrican rating if need be.
Sharon.
