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The busiest underground line in Paris is to be given a multi-million-pound overhaul which will make it "strike-proof" and streamlined.
Trains which do not need drivers will be introduced on the central Line 1 which stops at the Champs Elysées, the Louvre, and the Bastille, as part of a three-year, £534million makeover. This will make 250 train drivers redundant.
Parisian commuters have had their journeys disrupted several times this year by drivers striking against the government.
Reader views (7)
1) The Docklands light railway still needs a Passenger Service Agent to operate who is able to drive the train in an emergency. It is not completely driverless like line 13 of the Paris Metro.
2)Technology inevitably breaks down and if a packed driverless London tube did break down with no driver how would you feel?
- David B, Broadstairs, Kent
Hold on now, strike proof? So no drivers are required, but what about maintenance staff, cleaners, ticket staff, signalmen, etc? These people will all still be required and if any of them goes on strike it all goes belly up. Nice try but no cigar this time.
- Bob, Cheam
This story must have ruined Bob Crows day
- Steve, gravesend
Rich, when we can invest in it...by deleting your job.
- Prototypical Englishman, Wormwood Scrubs
I take it you must be one of those employed in the publice sector, with a comment like that.
I use the term employed in the public sector, as opposed to "working in the public sector" as work and public sector go together about as well as oil and water.
- P Staker, London
Why have TFL not looked at the same thing? We already have a working example in the Docklands Light Railroad. No more sick leave, strikes or mistakes over signals.
- Mark, London
Rich, when we can invest in it...by deleting your job.
- Prototypical Englishman, Wormwood Scrubs
Oooo, when can we get this here!!
- Rich, London
