Joe wrote:
Richard J. wrote:
"There will be no more drivers on Line 1 from 2010. STIF [the
Parisian equivalent of TfL] has just given its green light to the
project to automate this line, ... the busiest in the Paris
network with nearly 145 million passengers per year. Advantages
for users of the line will include increased frequency of trains,
additional capacity of 6% in peak hours, the possibility of
running trains for a good part of the night ... But, above all,
the introduction of driverless trains will allow them to run even
during strikes."

Well, the trains on that line come into platforms fairly sharpish,
so I wonder what ItLL be like with Ato.

You missed the last bit of my post. "Line 1 and most other Paris Métro
lines currently run with ATO, which was installed across the network
between 1967 and 1979." (So LU is 25 years behind Paris in that
respect.) The speed of trains arriving at stations won't change. What
is planned is full automation, including closing of doors, which works
well on Line 14 already.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)