#track-safety-infrastructure

Where track runs close to psychiatric institutions, add targeted fencing, barriers, or routing/siting changes to break the physical proximity that makes those sections hotspots for patient suicides — a driver generic network-wide measures leave unaddressed.

Construct recessed 'suicide pits' in the trackbed below platform level, giving a person on the track survivable space beneath a passing train. Reduces fatality of attempts without deterring them — a lethality-mitigation complement to other prevention measures.

Drainage pits recessed into the trackbed beneath London Underground platforms give a person on the track survivable space beneath a passing train. Where present, they roughly halved the fatality of attempts — but by des…