Who said they're no longer viable? Politicians with a vested interest? Businesses with a vested interest? Technology isn't always the best answer.
This. It'll free up their time to go to school again and learn a trade or get the relative marks to actually help contribute to a newer, more modern, better society, instead of causing large scale misery for poor folk who need to get to work on time just to get paid In a way, they're making the poor poorer by causing them loss of earnings. It's disgusting. Get the troops mobilized and start skull crushing these commies.
Most of London use the Oyster card and don't need a ticket office to buy tickets. Glasgow is heading that way.
As I understand it, these people's jobs have been replaced by automated ticketing machines; ergo no longer viable. I agree technology isn't always the best answer - often it is though.
Perhaps it's not their jobs that are overpaid but everyone else's who are underpaid. Ever thought of it like that?
All you ****s bitching at keeping up with technology etc. Have any of you ever ****ing been on the tubes? they are not exactly cutting edge. Filthiest way to travel in the ****ing UK. The ****ing things are never even clean, ever. Sit down on a seat and a cloud of dead skin cells puffs up around you and the 10 ****s stuffed next to you.
I'm not convinced they would. But you cant just pay someone 61k just in case! Just flipping it and I understand your point, but if there was a terrorist attack are the tube drivers going to get out there trains and beat the terrorists to death whilst guiding there passengers to safety? If so, all the training and risk warrants a certain degree of reward in pay structure but even for London 61k to 'drive' on the under ground seems a bloody good deal to me
