Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
Concerning the Underground, automating all the underground trains would be another aspect that should be addressed. In these days having trains that do not require drivers should be simple...
Not if you want to re-establish social control, respect for public property &cetera. People are sick of talking to machines already. Scrapping drivers, replacing ticket-sellers and ticket-controllers by machines, replacing surveillance by CCTV - that's exactly the sort of depersonalisation of public space that invites daily violations of order and the law. One of the reasons why public transport in the west is not taking off as it should is that we have turned it into a social wasteland. We have privatised it, we want the cheapest fares, and then we are surprised when carriages collide for lack of maintenance and train and subway stations become hoodlum territory.

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