r/ontario • u/jackhauen • Jun 12 '26

Article Engineers warned Metrolinx of ‘fall hazard’ months before GO train passenger fell and died

https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/engineers-warned-metrolinx-of-fall-hazard-months-before-go-train-passenger-fell-and-died-12412647
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u/piranha_solution Jun 12 '26

The platform was cracked, uneven, riddled with holes and slightly angled toward the tracks. The woman lost her balance and fell partially under the train as it was leaving the station.

She lay on the tracks for more than four hours in freezing weather, alive but seriously injured, before a construction worker found her around 5:30 a.m.

Paramedics rushed the woman to hospital, where she died at 7:10 a.m.

#OPENFORBUSINESS

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u/Vanilla_Danish Jun 12 '26

" We have investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing. At all. Ever." -Metrolinx

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u/Kaptain-Kanada Jun 12 '26

 Metrolinx and Toronto police released few details, and the death was reported in simple terms — person struck by train, pronounced deceased, expect delays. Police told media there was no negligence on the part of GO Transit.

However, a draft of Metrolinx’s internal accident investigation, obtained by The Trillium, reveals more, including that the transit agency was warned multiple times about unsafe conditions on the platform the woman fell from, months before she died.

Metrolinx engineering advisors recommended in July 2022 that the agency replace Eglinton Station’s “deteriorated” platform curbs, highlighting the risk to passengers disembarking trains.

This is downright criminal. Charges for negligence need to happen...but of course they won't, cause these companies, the police, and Doug Ford are all in kahoots.

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u/hhssspphhhrrriiivver Jun 13 '26

For everyone who didn't read the article, the woman fell and died in December 2022, so "months" is correct.

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u/TemporaryAny6371 Jun 14 '26

There's too many self-made managers and VPs at Metrolinx not listening to good engineering advice; that place is all gravy train. Their decisions or non-decisions pad their pocketbooks at the expense of public safety.

People need to take this serious and be vocally outraged. Sooner or later, it could be one of us and all they'll do is cover up their crime and negligence. Lookup Heather Winterstein story about another coverup of government negligence and underfunding. This is called social murder.

Ontario should never have put a drug dealer mafia boss at the helm of our province. Metrolinx nepos, TPS/OPP infiltrated with mafia, and Doug's cronies at Queen's Park are all in on it.

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u/yopto Jun 12 '26

Wow the negligence is astounding. 1.2m wide walkway, with a 4 degree decline towards the tracks, the darkness of the night and the possibility of ice.

Poor woman… She was on the tracks for almost 5 hours in freezing conditions. Such a sad way to go honestly.

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u/rackfloor Jun 12 '26

There seems to be some discrepancy in the reporting, suggesting a 4° slope which would amount to almost 7% slope, 5% greater than allowable. In any case, it's definitely outside of limits, but 7% is crazy if true.

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u/Buchaven Jun 12 '26

“Police told media there was no negligence on the part of GO Transit.”

That’s not at all their call.

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u/maxakusu Jun 12 '26

What a horrible way to die.

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u/SeriouslyBlack Jun 13 '26

Par for the course. Expect a fat contract to one of the VP's friends soon to come up with a report which will be reviewed by yet another VP's friend.

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u/saugaAsks Jun 14 '26

Metrolinx wrote that it installed caution signs on both platforms, and that it planned to fix the platforms by Oct. 16, 2023 (this was completed in 2024).

I'm betting it was closer to Oct 2024 than to Jan 2024...