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Your assumption is missing a few important points. It's a weird, stressful and depressing job, while also being inconvenient. People need transit to function ea
by sofixa 2y ago
Your assumption is missing a few important points. It's a weird, stressful and depressing job, while also being inconvenient. People need transit to function early in the morning, late at night, during holidays. Having enough train drivers to serve all of those comes at a cost, and is sometimes quite hard because people aren't lining up to stay stationary and press buttons in a tunnel from 4am or during Christmas/New Years (even if they don't personally celebrate it).
Automated driverless trains allow for higher frequency, reduce the need for a shitty job, and allow operations in inconvenient for humans hours and times.
- tim333 2y ago>people aren't lining up to stay stationary and press buttons I've always gathered there's quite a waiting list to get in. This from a tube driver: >You need to find a role within TfL. It doesn't have to be customer facing, but it has to be something within TfL. Once you're employed for 6 months with TfL, you can apply for Train Operator, when the job is available. If you pass all the interviews and assessments, you'll be entered into a queue before you start training. This could be a couple of years. In short, yes it is pretty hard to get the job of tube driver. https://www.reddit.com/r/LondonUnderground/comments/ti7skk/how_hard_is_it_to_get_a_job_as_a_tube_train_driver/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LondonUnderground/comments/ti7skk/h... Mostly because there aren't that many lowish skilled jobs paying £70k for a 35 hour week in London.