24 hour tube to start in 2015

NorthNineteen

Great news for SGers who fancy staying out in town a bit longer.  Basically on Fri and Sat nights the Victoria and Piccadilly (along with Central, Jubilee and parts of the Northern line) will run through-out the night.<br><br>I'll post a link to the press statement once it is released unless people are so desperate they want me to post the entire press release in here?<br>

Mirandola

Post!

NorthNineteen

Post is too long.  Link has been added now: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/28978.aspx

Arkady

And this means.... a new version of the tube map!!!!<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/cstp-night-map-2.jpg">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/cstp-night-map-2.jpg</a></div>;

Sutent

Great news. No more N91 or N29 on weekends and standing in the cold for ages

andy

The tube is going to start smelling of sick

JoeV

Start?<div><br></div>

Sutent

Hopefully it mean the reduction in use of illegal minicabs on the weekend

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ChangN4N6

Trams

kreuzkav

This is great news.  I've lived and visited other cities with 24 hour underground systems (either all week or at weekends) and it was a great experience and I never encountered sick.  London being the debauched place it is will probably witness its fair share.  Memories of my younger self getting night buses from late-night gigs and clubs at 3 am and and waiting ages in Trafalgar Square for a connection aren't happy and character building memories.

miss annie

No way will I be getting on the tube in the early hours. It's jam packed with weirdos, gropers and nutjobs now, can you imagine what it will be like when they're all drunk

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Sutent

Driver less tubes and no ticket issues are the next thing some will be pushing for. <div><br></div><div>Apparently the Victoria line can operate without a driver. </div><div><br></div><div>I would be against this idea but would need to see more evidence apart from money saving. </div>

yagamuffin

There is, apparently, evidence that driver-less trains are safer. I have not seen this myself but it is plausible in my mind. So long as the implementations are checked and double-checked then in theory it should be true. (it would be quite horrific if an accident was caused by human error in the driver-less train designed to take that very thing out of the equation!)

Arkady

Automatic train operation doesn't suffer from driver error.  Remember that the DLT is already driverless.  They are not talking about having unstaffed trains, but having the train operator free to move through the train to investigate problems rather than being stuck in the cab.  

ADGS

The DLT does have those annoying pretend drivers who sometimes get on. Worst of all when you've claimed the front seats yourselves and they insist on pulling rank.

Arkady

Ah yes, the 'train operators'.  They do the same job as Victoria line drivers (operate the doors, press go, wait until train stops at the next station, repeat), only the DLR operators are free to roam the train and platforms to offer assistance and answer questions, and don't earn £50-£60k a year.

Sutent

I don't know why the money the train drivers earn gets so much attention. They have huge responsibility for the public and should be rewarded for it. The real issue that some public servants like nurses, teachers get paid too little. <div><br></div><div>The London overground having a driver and a person closing the door who stands in carriage and doesn't move has been a real success. People feel more comfortable especially late at night. </div>