Pays to do a bit more research before commenting I suppose. I'm guessing that that random youtube person would have been anti-metro. You know, the loss of drivers and guards and all that anti - "let's not advance to 21st century technology transport".
Just like the fact that all the new NIF Intercity trains have had all the new safety technology gutted at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the NSW taxpayer from them so as to save the jobs of guards, on the premises of safety. Go figure? Yet, just two weeks ago, a guard fell out of a Sydney train. Safety eh? And what do guards do anyway? They certainly don't guard.
They open and close doors, something a driver could do with the latest technology - seriously, it's a push of a button on a console.
Or indeed, better still, it's something passengers can do themselves, like in Victoria, a state who hasn't had guards for decades. Door operation in Victoria is actually controlled by passengers on trains that don't have guards. Passengers push a button to open doors. The driver then closes all doors when the train is leaving. This is allowed in Victoria by the same f**king union that prevents this happening in NSW. Why?
