On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:44:55 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:
It confirms what I said:
"With regard to automatic opening of the doors on the jubilee, what is the
actual point of taking away another safety critical responsibility from the
drivers while they are still here? Dwell times apparently but all your
(sic) going to do is save about a nano second that it would take for the
driver to just press open."

In theory. In reality the odd driver can sometimes be quite tardy opening the
doors. Obviously busy doing some other vitally important task to justify his
50K salary.

In any case, why does the person who makes such a decision have to be
travelling around, mostly doing nothing, on the front of a train? The
remote operator would be much better placed in a central control room,
where they have direct access to the BTP and the line controller.

To be fair, you need boots on the ground if there's an incident on the tube
and pax have to be evacuated. Its perhaps not as important on brand new metros
where the doors can be opened in the tunnel onto a nice wide walkway where
everyone can easily walk to the nearest station without assistance. In the
deep tube where you have to evac from the front of the train its another
matter.

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Spud