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The BTS Skytrain management is planning to install barriers at all BTS stations to prevent people from falling onto the rail tracks.
Read the following story from the Bangkok Post to learn more about this safety project.
Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc is considering installing barriers at all BTS Skytrain stations to prevent commuters from falling onto the rail tracks. The company made the announcement after Channel 3 news anchor Warunrat Kalphan fainted and fell onto the tracks at Mor Chit station on the morning of August 19. She was helped up by BTS security guards and passengers before a train pulled into the station, and escaped with minor leg injuries.
SAVED BY STAFF
Company chairman Anat Arbhabhirama praised BTS security guards for swiftly pressing an emergency stop button to alert incoming trains before rushing down onto the tracks to help Warunrat.
Anat said the news anchor told BTS staff that she was fine and just needed a short rest. However, the staff took her to a nursing facility at the station, where she could wait for her relatives to come and pick her up. Warunrat’s family came to collect her and took her to hospital for a check-up.
SAFETY PROJECT
Anat said that Mor Chit station is already in line to get new barriers between train platforms and tracks, pending the construction of the BTS extension due to be carried out shortly.
Passenger barriers have already been installed at nine stations as part of a pilot project. The stations with barriers are Siam, Asok, On Nut, Phaya Thai, Victory Monument, Sala Daeng, Chidlom, Phrom Phong and Chong Nonsi. The company is still testing the system used to control the barriers and will consider installing barriers at all stations in the nearly future, Anat said.
Exercises
Read the story. Then, find vocabulary words used in the story that are synonyms of the following words.
1. assist ………………
2. passengers ………………
3. firm ………………
4. newsreader ………………
Vocabulary
- barrier (n): an object like a fence that prevents people from moving forward from one place to another
anchor (n): a person who introduces reports or reads the news on television or radio
check-up (n): a medical examination to make sure that you are healthy
pending (prep): while waiting for something to happen
