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This is the first time Robert Gauthier has stepped foot inside the TTC’s Bloor-Yonge station since his brother Gary committed suicide last year.

The 46-year-old veteran Toronto Transit Commission worker took the day off from his night shift job as a structure mechanic on Jan. 12, 2017.

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At 2 p.m. that day, Gary — a 47-year-old Canada Post worker — calmly walked to the end of the westbound platform at Yonge station, opened the metal end gate, walked down five steps and waited for about five minutes before stepping in front of the next train coming into the station.

Gary was wearing his blue Canada Post uniform, which could have been mistaken as a TTC bus driver’s garb that day, his brother explained.

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“Yonge and Bloor at 2 p.m., it would be packed. Customers were watching, thinking he was an actual worker,” Gauthier said.

“People were looking, not sure what to do.”

“Those end gates being locked could save someone’s life, or even a terrorist from going down there,” he added.