Boris say now looking at driverless trains.

ILW · 18 December 2011 at 1:20PM

Boris Johnson was just on the radio saying that due to the actions of the tube drivers, LUL are now stepping up the research and investment into driverless trains. Wonder what ASLEF and the RMT will have to say?

Dan:_4 · 18 December 2011 at 1:34PM

Boris does talk some sh!te.

Cash-Cow_3 · 18 December 2011 at 1:58PM

Makes sense. Plenty of mass transit systems around the world that operate driverless.

RenovationMan · 18 December 2011 at 2:07PM

Eventually all unionised industries prices themselves out of the market. This is just another example where the costs of researching and installing new technologies is more than covered by the improved efficiencies and staff reductions.

It's the same reason we have robots in car factories, computerised printing machines in newspapers and outsourcing in government departments.

paddyrg · 18 December 2011 at 2:08PM

Driverless trains - how will that work?

(A bit like Singapore, DLR, etc, one supposes...)

ILW · 18 December 2011 at 2:14PM

I think they may have done better just keeping their heads down and taking the 50k salary rather than making a fuss about boxing day, Olympics etc. You can push things just a little to far for your own good.

Dan:_4 · 18 December 2011 at 2:20PM

ILW wrote: »

I think they may have done better just keeping their heads down and taking the 50k salary rather than making a fuss about boxing day, Olympics etc. You can push things just a little to far for your own good.

They will be okay. LU will take years to implement an automatic train network and when they finally do the existing drivers will either be made redundant (and they have very generous packages in place for this) or will simply transfer to a new position of 'safety officier'

michaels · 18 December 2011 at 3:02PM

Whilst the apparent greed annoys me it does just seem like a group using the 'rules' to enrich themselves at the expense of the majority - rather like the 'private sector' bankers....