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Old February 5th 04, 12:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Tom Anderson wrote in message ...
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Anon wrote:

Also if a person does throw themselves in front of a train which seems
to be a regular experience in London. In Japan the family have to pay
the clean up cost. As they replace both rails and ballast it can be very
expensive. Hence very few suicides.


How many people have killed themselves on Jubilee Extension platforms? I'd
have thought that great big perspex barriers would be an even better way
of reducing suicides.

tom


Its all the people on rollerskates banging into the perspex barriers
as they can't stop that bounces the injury rate up.