Going to unmanned and paying someone a premium to rapidly respond and fix machines 24/7 would be a massive cost reduction.
Recently discontinued Scarborough Rapid Transit could have been driverless, but still wasn’t.
Toronto’s will have both a driver and and an on-train “guard” person to look out the window to make sure nobody is trapped in the door or something. Might get eliminated tho: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/toronto-says-no-to-ttc...
Going to unmanned and paying someone a premium to rapidly respond and fix machines 24/7 would be a massive cost reduction.