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Automated metro lines aren't unsupervised though. The automated lines in Paris and Lille also stop when there is a strike.
by seszett 7y ago
Automated metro lines aren't unsupervised though. The automated lines in Paris and Lille also stop when there is a strike.
- greatpatton 7y agoNo during the last strike (September) in Paris the line 1 and 14 (the only 2 lines with automated metro) were both operational.
- seszett 7y agoThat's because the conductors were striking but not the supervisors, though, not because an automated line is inherently immune to striking. I thought line 14 was stopped because of a strike some time ago but it was apparently just because of an incident, it might never have stopped because of a strike indeed. But that just means the employees that manage it don't strike.
- rumanator 7y ago> That's because the conductors were striking but not the supervisors, though That's the whole point.
- mc32 7y agoIs there a technological reason that it needs supervisors or is that an administrative requirement?
- seszett 7y agoOf course, because however controlled is the environment it runs in, all sorts of unplanned things can happen. A tyre blowing out. A passenger pressing the emergency stop button. A person or animal entering the tracks after defeating the barriers. Flooding in a tunnel. All of these events need a fast response regardless of whether the hardware detects the problem and stops by itself or not, even if just to evacuate the people that are inside the stopped cars.