The Beijing News reporter visited the subway station after removing the unnecessary diversion fence:
Metro passengers no longer "walk the maze" commute time shortened
Yesterday, in Sihui East Station, the diversion fence has been removed, and the hall is much larger. Beijing News reporter Wang Guibin photo
In June this year, the Beijing Subway once again evaluated the fence inside the station to reduce unnecessary diversion fences. Up to now, a total of 12,280 meters have been removed. The Beijing News reporter visited many subway stations and found that the subway station after the removal of the fence was more spacious than before, and passengers generally felt that the passage was more convenient and more efficient. Experts believe that this move of the Beijing Subway is of progressive significance, and it is necessary to improve the management level while removing the fence.
The Beijing News recently, the Beijing subway removed the non-essential diversion fence in the station. Up to now, the hard diversion fence in the station has been sorted out and investigated for 20008 meters, and the hard diversion fence has been removed for a total of 12,280 meters, of which the optimization is replaced by soft Mass diversion zone is 3730 meters. The subway company will subsequently replace the diversion fence 5296 meters. As an alternative, soft diversion fences will be used during peak hours and will be activated in time according to passenger flow.
According to reports, in order to maximize the convenience of passengers, improve traffic efficiency, and improve the appearance of the station, Beijing Metro Corporation, based on full research, investigation, and argumentation, based on the opinions of all parties, removed part of the hard fence. In 2018, the hard diversion fence in the station has been removed for 3,500 meters, and in 2019, 2,814 meters will be removed. On this basis, at the beginning of June this year, all the diversion fences in the operating stations were evaluated again. The location, purpose, and number of hard diversion fences in each station were sorted out and counted, and an optimized demolition plan was formulated.
Around 2010, passenger traffic in the Beijing subway increased rapidly year by year, and many subway stations had to use diversion fences to control the short-term gathering of people. It was from then on that a large number of "labyrinth"-like diversion fences were placed outside the ground station kiosks of many popular subway stations in Beijing, in front of security gates, and in the interchange passages.
Visit 1 Sihui Station
Morning rush commute "Save a few minutes"
The reporter saw at Sihui Metro Station yesterday that the current-limiting fences between the transfer entrances and exits of Line 1 and Batong Line have been completely removed, and only the fences used to isolate the security and non-security inspection areas are kept. To the corner of the station.
The reporter noticed that the total distance for passengers to change to walking was no more than 30 meters, but before removing the guardrail, passengers had to wrap around a hundred meters in the diversion fence area of the station hall, which took about 3 minutes.
After removing the current-limiting fence, there is no need to take the S-shaped route, passengers can go directly to the transfer gate. The reporter took a trip, and the transfer took less than a minute.
Many subway passengers are deeply touched, "After removing these fences, our commuters don’t have to circle along the fence when they change to the subway." Passenger Ms. Li told reporters that the new changes in the subway station can save her several minutes of commuting time. . In the past, sometimes the morning rush went quickly and there were many people, and it was easy to bump the guardrail with a little careless leg.
Passenger Mr. Zhang said that in the past, transfers at Sihui Station were quite troublesome. The route specified by the current-limiting fence greatly extended the walking distance, and the fence interval allowed only two people to travel side by side. Inadvertent bumps by passengers during peak hours will also cause Friction; on the other hand, due to the high uniformity and density of the original current-limiting fence, the sight is blocked, and it is difficult to find exactly which road can reach the transfer line, "like a maze."
Visit 2 Sihui East Station
The transfer route now only takes more than 20 meters
In recent months, many passengers have also found that the platform hall of Sihui East Station, the terminal station of Metro Line 1, has become brighter when changing to the Batong Line. In the past 10 years or so, a metal fence with a height of more than 1.8 meters has been installed here, like a "fence array" for the hall. On July 13th, Mr. Chen, who lives in Tongzhou, told the Beijing News reporter that in the past, when transferring in the morning rush hour, people were queued up and walked back and forth to the S line. When there were the most people, they had to follow the person in front for at least five minutes. Arrive at Line 1 platform.
Mr. Chen, who has been commuting for many years, understands the frustration of setting up diversion fences at subway stations. "Fences are good, and passengers cannot jump in line." Mr. Chen said, "After the railings were removed, the transfer route that used to take a few minutes was now only more than 20 meters away. Save a lot of trouble."
Another passenger, Ms. Ma, ridiculed that the height of the fence in the past was like walking around in a cage, and now it is much more spacious. "I think for most commuters, waiting in line is a habit, and gradually It can also be adapted, there is no need to use such a high fence to set limits for everyone."
At around 6pm on July 13th, with the arrival of the evening rush hour, the people in the subway station gradually became denser. The reporter saw that without the barriers, passengers could easily concentrate quickly to the downstairs area on the platform of the Batong Line, but they all queued up consciously Going downstairs did not cause congestion.
Visit 3 Shaoyaoju Station
During the peak period, the mobile stretch fence is more flexible
Shaoyaoju Station is an interchange station on Metro Line 10 and Line 13. Earlier, at the exit of the connecting channel for the two-line transfer, after reaching the station hall of line 10, a row of metal fences over 60 meters long and one meter high separated the station hall. After passengers walked into the station hall of line 10 from the direction of line 13, they could not directly get off the platform. Instead, they had to walk through an S-shaped passage to "circle", which required them to walk more than a hundred meters.
Ding Yinshuo, the monitor of Shaoyaoju Station on Line 10, said that the number of people taking public transportation has been reduced due to the epidemic situation. During the one-month period when the fence was removed, there was no temporary gathering of people on the platform during the morning and evening peak hours. However, it is expected that after the epidemic has passed, some current limiting measures will be needed at the peak of passenger flow, so they have made a plan.
In the station hall, two stretchable metal fences with a total length of 8 meters are placed against the wall, with wheels underneath. Ding Yinshuo and several staff members demonstrated to reporters that during peak hours, the fence can be pushed to the use position within half a minute and stretched to 25 meters. When the peak time passes, the fence will be put away to stand against the wall.
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Acting Dean of the Landscape Design Institute of Peking University Li Dihua
After "demolition", the management level should also be improved
"Decision-makers and managers must be people-centered, and they must focus on people." When talking about the removal of non-essential diversion fences at subway stations, Li Dihua, associate professor and acting dean of the Peking University Institute of Landscape Architecture, said in an interview with the Beijing News yesterday .
Li Dihua said that the removal of diversion fences in the Beijing subway and the removal of isolation fences on Beijing’s urban roads since last year are an improvement that is worthy of recognition and emulation in other public areas. However, the management level should be improved at the same time when the fence is removed. If the subway station with concentrated passenger flow does have diversion needs, management personnel should be added, or the direction of passengers should be guided by pasting guide signs and floor paving lines.
In Li Dihua's view, the establishment of physical isolation is the simplest management method, clarifying the boundary of responsibility, saving manpower, saving energy, but it is not conducive to the formation of public order participants' norms of behavior. The removal of the fence reminds the public to get used to defining boundaries in accordance with public order. When their actions infringe on other people’s fields or interests, they must be aware of and corrected in time.
Beijing News reporter Pei Jianfei Zhang Jingshu Ma Mingren