[ashconnor]

No doubt the RMT will take the blame for this but as the article points out:

> It’s now been confirmed that the study reached the same conclusion that every other study into the issue has already reported — it’ll cost an awful lot of money for very little benefit.

[sofixa]

I wonder if they compared with Paris which has similarly old infrastructure, but managed to automate the two most heavily used lines (1 and 4).