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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
As a higher management Londoner, I would have thought that you would have been on the DLR Alan. Go and have a ride on one and you will see that there are no staff at all. After all you are a train enthusiast, as you were a member of a train forum until you got banned recently.
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Actually, the DLR trains are staffed. The have an operator who usually just starts the train and checks tickets, but they have the option of driving if something goes wrong. He or she also has to evacuate the train in the event of an emergency. I believe this is a requirement because if they do have to evacuate, the passengers may be walking along electrified tracks.
It's likely that if the tube goes driverless, they'll still have an operator for exactly this reason.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Achieved what, in comparison to Boris? Here's a piece to start you off; it's highly partisan but that's ok, you can balance it by linking to a partisan source of your own.
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I did realise one thing Ken achieved.
I can, in theory, get the bus to work. I don't, generally, because one road in Lewisham is a massive traffic black spot (unfortunately, I have to go up this road). Ken came in, saw the problem and diverted cars up another road, changing part of the original road to pedestrians and buses only.
Good idea in theory. However, TFL then directed so many bus routes (most of which originally went up the road Ken diverted the cars to) up that road that all Ken implementing this actually achieved was to ensure that the regular traffic jams were composed entirely of buses.