Sydney Trains has installed rubber gap fillers on all platforms at Olympic Park Station to give families with small children attending the Royal Easter Show added peace of mind for a safe and memorable day out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubber gap fillers bridge the space between the train doors and platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, 15 people fell through the gap at Olympic Park Station \u2013 13 of those during the Easter Show period when close to 400,000 people travelled there by train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than half of all falls into the gap across the rail network happen at the busiest stations, and often as families with kids are on the way to or from an event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s why the rollout of gap fillers has followed the numbers of slips, trips and falls, with installation at Circular Quay and platforms at Town Hall, Martin Place, Wynyard, Bondi Junction, Redfern, Chatswood, Wolli Creek and Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since they were installed at 26 priority platforms not a single person has fallen through the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stations to receive the safety upgrade shortly include Epping, Lidcombe, Strathfield, Blacktown, Hurstville and Sydenham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Transport John Graham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChildhood memories of the Royal Easter Show should be all about show bags, rides and the best animals in show \u2013 not a frightening fall at the train station on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe saw the numbers of Easter Show-related falls at Olympic Park last year and we have fast-tracked the installation of gap fillers so a trip to show is as stress-free as possible for the hundreds of thousands of parents getting their families there by train.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sydney Trains Chief Executive Matt Longland said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere has not been a single fall through the gap recorded on any platform where this solution has been rolled out since the program began four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are always big crowds visiting the Easter Show every year, and many of those will arrive by train, so this safety measure will offer parents some added peace of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sydney Trains has installed rubber gap fillers on all platforms at Olympic Park Station to give families with small children attending the Royal Easter Show added peace of mind for a safe and memorable day out. Rubber gap fillers bridge the space between the train doors and platforms. Last year, 15 people fell through the … Continue reading “A giant leap for safety of families getting the train to Royal Easter Show”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32307,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32306\/revisions\/32307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}