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| Automatic doors at underground station in Rome  Although the Roman underground cannot compete for size with its counterparts in London and Paris, it is certainly making an effort to spruce itself up. This includes modernising and improving the station facilities, enhancing the security systems, improving the internal spaces, removing barriers to disabled access (where possible), and providing information in English for the many foreign visitors. Naturally, the focus of all this effort is Termini station, where the A and B lines meet, but the other stations have had their make-overs too.The photo illustrates the works in progress at the entrance to EUR Fermi station; we are on line B, the Rebibbia-Laurentina line, between Viale America and Piazza della Stazione Enrico Fermi, alongside the artificial lake created for the 1960 Olympic Games. Over 400 services pass by here every day, from 5:30 in the morning until 10:30 at night on weekdays, and as late as 1:30 am at weekends – at the rate of one every 4 minutes during rush hour and one every 6 minutes off peak. The station's automatic doors have a gruelling job to do, so only the best – the strongest and most durable – will be good enough, without neglecting their aesthetic qualities, because appearance counts too. So which doors were installed? DITEC Valor whose anti-crush devices, obstruction detection system, opening/closing speed settings and various other cutting-edge technical features put them in a class of their own when it comes to reliability and safety. The quality of DITEC's Valor automatic pedestrian doors has already been proven in thousands of other heavy-use situations, and is now at the service of passengers on the Rome underground; congratulations go to DITEC Expert Angelo Cino, who performed the installation. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |