Talk:Suicide on the London Underground

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A fact from Suicide on the London Underground appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that drainage pits under London Underground tracks help reduce the number of suicides?

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Good article

Good idea for an article. Would be interesting to see similar for Golden Gate Bridge suicides, and train deaths in Mumbai - both have a large number of deaths, in particular in Mumbai, "Every day, an average of 10 people are killed crossing the train tracks."[1] -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:39, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have another article, Suicide by hanging, even more interesting than this one, but the folks over at DYK didn't like it. I may one day created Suicide by railway and Suicide by jumping. Christopher Connor (talk) 18:52, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why the distinction?

According to Metro systems by annual passenger rides, the London Underground is the world's 11th most popular subway. Which makes me wonder why we have this distinguished article (in the navbox, even!). Surely the people killing themselves in the London Underground are a minority compared to all these other metro systems. And even if the London Underground has more suicides, does that make the subject more notable? If Japanese people don't kill themselves on the Tokyo Subway because their culture makes people inconvenience other people less, why can't we document this? I think there should just be a "Suicide by metro" article. --Ysangkok (talk) 19:33, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Effect of track layout

"PEDs are expensive to install and can to train services" am i missing something here, or is the phrase incomplete?--Idonthavetimeforthiscarp 15:20, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect interpretation of source regarding ventilation

I have removed ([2]) "although their primary purpose is to help with ventilation rather than reduce suicides", as this appears to be an incorrect interpretation of the linked source ([3]). If I understand the source correctly, the main purpose of the PEDs is to reduce suicides, and a secondary objective is to protect people on the platform from the air flow caused by the train. The only sentence mentioning ventilation states that "The screens would not be full height to allow the stations to be ventilated by the movement of the trains". This means that PEDs reduce impede ventilation rather than help it, and they are designed to not reach all the way to the ceiling as that would cut off ventilation completely. 131.111.185.9 (talk) 08:34, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]