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Recliner[_3_] · October 12th 14, 11:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2014-10-11 09:45:52 +0000, Recliner said:

The new automated trains will still have an attendant, who may be in
charge of closing the doors.

Will they? Isn't that precisely what the Victoria and Central Lines
have - they just sit up front because it would be very hard for them
to do the doors on a crush loaded train from elsewhere.

I would assume if they want to automate fully, they will automate
fully, doors included, just like say Singapore. If you still have
staff on the train of any kind, you don't save any money.

It all depends on whether you believe Boris (difficult question I know). He
said they will have captains like the DLR.

I think he said they'll actually have 'drivers' in the front cab in the
first few years, then roving attendants, presumably after the PEDs are
installed in tunnel stations. But this is all a decade or more after the
end of his mayoralty. By then, he'll be either PM or on the telly.