I'm starting to feel sorry for these people. I truly don't know how they are getting through their day.

Calm down people. You will get used to using it. Have you never had to adapt to change before in your life? What is wrong with these people???

Yes, what claustrophobic commuter would not feel at ease in the wide open spaces of a passenger car.

used to hop skytrain before they changed it.

It's the same in other cities. I was surprised the gates were open when I first moved here.

I just can't sometimes with Vancouverites and their heads up their asses. This city is so easy to live in. Have you ever gone through the claustrophobic gates of New York? The turnstiles that are head to toe horizontal metal bars. Those are claustrophobic. How about dealing with tens of thousands of people in Tokyo, London, Paris. Everywhere has gates except here and those cities have done fine with them.

Guess what, if disaster happens jump over the gate, or slide under it if you are too short. How do you cope being on a bus or even on the train? That's claustrophobic compared to a wide hallway. Stop making up ridiculous complaints.

Get a life is right. You should see other cities' subway systems. Your head would spin off. Toughen up and maybe travel to change your perception.

Th issue is we're not New York, Tokyo, London, Paris. And being a relatively young city, we can do better than them. Metal bars that make your infrastructure look like a series of gated refugee camps is not friendly. Gates are not friendly.

And as for you and the first poster talking about how "ridiculous" this is, psychiatric problems aren't rational, it's not like someone chooses to be afraid of an enclosure, etc. And Translink did all of this without considering disabled people. The gates won't be closed fully because then people who have no use of their hands won't be able to scan their passes, so it's all a big waste of money.

And what about disabled people who are too marginal in skills to even complain? Being disabled can make life very challenging, just basic daily living things. I'm sure there are some disabled people who learned to use the transit system when they were very young, and now they don't really know what's going on.

Basically, the summary of the arguments is this:

PRO:
Every other fancy city full of morons has one. (keeping up with the Jones's argument)
You'll get used to it. (lowered expectations via no-way-out argument)

CON:
Creates congestion, inefficiency in movement.
Wastes money
Obstructs disabled people
High-pitched beeping.

In the end, maybe 80% of people will get used to most anything---even corporal punishment most people put up with for most of history until the 1970s, depending on region.

If Vancouver doesn't have gates, tokyo, london, etc. do, they should tear down their gates and get hip---we shouldn't be copying old, failed ideologies in Vancouver.

Enough with the fucking high pitched beeping. Other points I get. This one is ridiculious.

Haha these posts make me laugh. As someone who grew up in London I just find the anti-compass crowd so ridiculous. Oh no there is a beeping sound and I can't get a free ride. Wait what if I get trapped in this big open space. Oh no wait what if it takes me a second more to get through the gates. Nope can't handle it. I hope translink release a tongue in cheek "how to cope in a compass crisis" leaflet. Perhaps with a call in number for the people traumatized by the beeping. Ha I just can't. I'm laughing too much to continue this post.