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Originally Posted by valo403
Isn't Waterloo also new (or completely renovated)? I remember seeing this in a London station around 2002, just can't remember which one. It's also present at the Olympic Park station in Sydney, which is very high volume after events.
It would be a great addition to new stations where the trains are standardized, but I'm not sure there's anywhere in the NYC system like that. Fulton St. is the only new/full renovation I know of but I'm not sure about the trains there.
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Just looked it up- part of renovations to Jubilee line, but the major incentive for installing them in London wasn't for saftey
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They were designed primarily to reduce the movement of air caused by emergency ventilation fans which activate in event of a fire, or under test conditions.
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Anyways, here is a wikipedia synopsis on the transit systems that use them in some form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors