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London Assembly Tories propose driverless Tube trains
On 17 June, 13:18, MIG wrote:
On 17 June, 11:32, Paul wrote: On 17 June, 11:00, "Ian F." wrote: "Mizter T" wrote in message ... I suspect Bob Crow's analysis - that this is a bit of kite-flying - is probably on the money. How could we ever have driverless trains? There'd be no one to shut the doors at Kennington just as you're rushing to change trains from the Bank to Charing Cross platform. Ian Or at Finsbury Park when you want to change from the Piccadilly line to the Victoria line. Mind you I am sure that the line controllers could achieve the same with judicious use of CCTV cameras. Bottom line is, you can't very well have staffless (which is what it really means) trains without platform edge doors, although I am not entirely certain of their efficacy. An anorak string with a large bobble, of the kind that got a boy killed in the Piccadilly a few years ago, might be able to get trapped between both the train doors and the platform doors without detection, although a person would presumably just be slammed into the latter rather than dragged under the train.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 security staff ("Prevention - Transports") who provide a visible presence at stations, and keep all the tramps, drunks and troublemakers out of the way. There are also team of Revenue Protection Inspectors. Not sure that such a system would work in London, though. For one thing, safety regulations after the Kings Cross fire would not permit unstaffed stations undergound, and having unstaffed stations would be an open invitation to Al-Qaeda to try a repeat of 7/7. |
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London Assembly Tories propose driverless Tube trains
On 17/06/2010 14:50, Paul wrote:
The metro in Lille is completely automatic, but is monitored by CCTV at every station. What stops the monitor monitors from going on strike every time the World Cup is on? |
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London Assembly Tories propose driverless Tube trains
Basil Jet wrote on 17 June 2010
15:19:27 ... On 17/06/2010 14:50, Paul wrote: The metro in Lille is completely automatic, but is monitored by CCTV at every station. What stops the monitor monitors from going on strike every time the World Cup is on? Every time there's a strike on the Paris Métro (which is quite often), the driverless Line 14 always runs a normal service. Maybe there are enough non-union managers to staff the control room on those days. -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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London Assembly Tories propose driverless Tube trains
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Basil Jet wrote:
On 17/06/2010 14:50, Paul wrote: The metro in Lille is completely automatic, but is monitored by CCTV at every station. What stops the monitor monitors from going on strike every time the World Cup is on? The fact that football isn't terribly popular in India yet. Where a job is done over a wire, it can be offshored! tom -- Oh, well of course *everything* looks bad if you remember it |
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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 |
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