End of tube strikes?

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nd-trains.html

The dawn of driverless Tubes: Sadiq Khan is forced to draw up plans for automated Underground trains under terms of latest £1.08bn TfL bailout

• Transport for London must now push ahead with timetable for driverless trains as part of Government bailout
• Ministers say they want to see business plans by the end of 2021 amid hopes they would improve punctuality
• But Mayor Sadiq Khan who chairs TfL has called them a 'gross misuse of taxpayers' money at this critical time'
• DfT says Mr Khan has committed to 'make progress' towards driverless trains with an 'on-board attendant'
• TfL will now report on the business case for fully automated trains on Piccadilly and Waterloo and City lines

at last

[ladymuck]

Wonderful to see our illustrious leader contradict himself. When he was mayor he had a completely different stance.

Anyway, this is a very good review of why driverless trains doesn't (a) mean what you think and (b) won't spell the end of unions

https://www.londonreconnections.com/...ss-tube-train/

[eek]

Wonderful to see our illustrious leader contradict himself. When he was mayor he had a completely different stance.

Anyway, this is a very good review of why driverless trains doesn't (a) mean what you think and (b) won't spell the end of unions

https://www.londonreconnections.com/...ss-tube-train/

twas about to post the exact same thing.

Automation won't change a thing (and won't occur anyway as there isn't the money to do it).

[Eirikur]

Daily Mail

[AtW]

As a guess - without unionised safety worker present on board of “driverless” train it won’t be going anywhere.

To ensure safety said worker might be pressing a button to get train going and stopping.

Would have been cheaper to ban strikes in mass transit systems and get Army to run it as contingency in the spirit of Reagan

[vetran]

its a journey

[SueEllen]

As a guess - without unionised safety worker present on board of “driverless” train it won’t be going anywhere.

To ensure safety said worker might be pressing a button to get train going and stopping.

Like on the Victoria line perhaps? - http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Vi...Line%20ATO.htm

Would have been cheaper to ban strikes in mass transit systems and get Army to run it as contingency in the spirit of Reagan

Maybe....or maybe not....

[AtW]

Looks like under Labour London Underground is going down the tubes

[ladymuck]

London has always been a Labour oddity. No idea why.

[SueEllen]

London has always been a Labour oddity. No idea why.

People in London tend to be younger than the surrounding SE and younger people tend to vote Labour.