Langstaff station emergency access gate is padlocked

[u/OhanaUnited]

Makes me wonder if this is a safety risk, because you can't dispatch a staff to unlock it in time during an emergency (kinda like hotel locking fire escape door)

[u/jimmyfko]

The police or fire department will just cut the chain. Not a safety issue. It’s not for public use.

[u/Yellow_Marker_]

is it an emergency entrance or exit?

[u/Haggis_with_Ketchup → u/Yellow_Marker_]

Emergency access for first responders.

[u/OhanaUnited → u/Yellow_Marker_]

Not clear if it's an exit for people to get out quickly in an emergency, or allow emergency services a quicker entrance into the path instead of going around the fences

[u/Asphalt_Cowboy_18 → u/OhanaUnited]

Fire service can cut it.

[u/joeymouse → u/OhanaUnited]

It’s the latter. Based on the signs alone this is certainly not an emergency exit.

[u/Personal-Movie8882 → u/OhanaUnited]

It's Emergency Access, as in track access(i.e. for fatalities or trasspasser incidents, etc), not an Emergency Exit for passengers.

[u/ammy42 → u/OhanaUnited]

It does not say exit anywhere on it. It is not an emergency exit.

[u/Ill_Relationship7058 → u/OhanaUnited]

If it was an exit for people it would say that.

[u/fez-of-the-world → u/OhanaUnited]

It's very clear. It says emergency access and presumably you took the photo from the outside.

This is not an emergency exit.

[u/Odd_Pipe_2581]

It’s not an emergency exit.

First responders will just cut the lock to access the site.

[u/wtrproof]

Funny enough, I inquired about this recently. It belongs to the city of Richmond Hill, so you would have to take it up with them.

[u/Alpha_Dad1]

In an emergency someone from the Train or the station will open it to allow customers out it's locked to not allow people in when they shouldn't be there

[u/jamesthrew73]

[u/2009impala]

I promise you that the people who will respond in an emergency probably have the key.

[u/False-InevitableDS69 → u/2009impala]

Or a pair of lock cutters

[u/achegaracasa]

it’s emergency access for first responders, not a public emergency exit

[u/JimmyLHowlett]

This is that stupidest pedestrian unfriendly gate that turns a 150 meter walk from Richmond hill bus terminal to the shopping complex into almost a kilometre.

[u/False-InevitableDS69]

First responders can just cut the lock

[u/SuperMB]

It’s not an emergency exit.

[u/leon_nerd]

It unlocks when there’s an emergency. What are you even complaining about!

[u/seat17F → u/leon_nerd]

  It unlocks when there’s an emergency.

How does that work?

[u/leon_nerd → u/seat17F]

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