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2/10/2020
Metrolinx will install rubber panels at 18 grade crossings on GO Transit's Lakeshore corridors to deter people from trespassing on tracks, the Toronto transit-rail agency announced last week.
Last year, the anti-trespass panels (ATPs) were installed at three locations as part of a pilot program. Almost immediately, Metrolinx officials noticed a drop in the number of pedestrians in the railway corridor, agency officials said in a blog.
The ATPs are made of hard rubber in a rounded cone shape pattern making it difficult to walk over. The plan to install them is designed to reduce the number of times people come into contact with trains within Metrolinx corridors, minimize train delays and increase public safety, agency officials said.
Next month, a Metrolinx contractor will install the panels at crossings across the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West corridors.