A mother who lost her son after accidentally falling from the platform to the chinatown stadium Skytrain The station now calls Translint To improve safety measures at stations.
The son of Cunningham, 34, Julian, fell back from the platform on Saturday morning and was killed.
“My son had a life of pain and loss and mental health and overdose and he succeeded,” said Cunningham.
“The thing that ended his life after 18 years in the streets and is lost in her mind and homeless, goes too far,” she added, supporting a few steps to show how her son fell.
Cunningham said she was in the park on Saturday morning when she discovered her son’s accident.
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She rushed to the USI to see him. “He had almost no brain activity,” she said.
“I was able to hold it and say goodbye.”
Cunningham said Skytrain stations can be very busy and that the risk of an accident is too large. She would like to see protective barriers to stops to prevent the type of incidents that took the life of her son.
In a declaration to Global News, Translink said that with British Columbia Rapid Transit Company, performs a study that will take into account a “wide range of options to limit track intrusion” on the system, including the screen doors of the platform.
“This study is called a trackway intrusion engineering study and includes the assessment of new and emerging technologies used in other transit systems around the world,” said a spokesperson.
“The platform’s wallpapers are often discussed in these contexts. However, they are not currently achievable on the existing Skytrain system due to the alignments of variable doors between train models and station design limitations. ”
The study should not be completed before 2027 and it will guide a long -term strategy to improve the safety of guide routes, according to Translink.
“You shouldn’t have to bury your children, it’s not good,” said Cunningham.
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