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Old June 17th 10, 02:23 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default London Assembly Tories propose driverless Tube trains

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
Paul wrote:
The metro in Lille is completely automatic, but is monitored by CCTV
at every station. Inside the trains whereby you can press a button and
speak to the line controller. In addition there are mobile patrols of


Also the tunnels are double track and quite large so once the train doors were
open escaping from the train would be a fairly simple process. Not so in
a deep level tube train.

B2003