At least two transit agencies, the Toronto region’s Metrolinx and the Montreal region’s Exo, have estimated how many of those deaths are suicides: between 70 to 80 per cent. Increasingly, transit agencies are pairing up with mental-health professionals to create plans, train staff and establish systems to actively prevent people from using the tracks to end their lives. Those could include someone standing on a platform without boarding as train after train passes by. Transit agencies now have crisis call-boxes at platforms and on trains themselves. Though the service has already been used 11,000 times, the cross-Canada railway crisis line is still in its infancy.

Source: thestar September 13, 2018 02:03 UTC