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TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains

Transport for London (TfL) has dropped its investigation into how it could introduce driverless trains on the London Underground.

One of the many conditions imposed on TfL during the pandemic to keep services running when most of us were stuck at home was that it would investigate how it could introduce driverless trains on the Underground. In a written answer, the Mayor of London has now confirmed that work by the Department for Transport ( DfT) with TfL technical input concluded that introducing driverless trains would cost billions of pounds on each line. However, spending tens of billions of pounds upgrading the railway to save maybe at most £100 million a year in the wage bill would be a remarkable waste of money.

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