Re:France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year
by thrillgore on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:13AM
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I'm guessing the cost of staff factors into it. Some Paris Metro lines are ATO, but still operator run. I can't speak to the SNCF lines, but I imagine since they're prone to striking...
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Re:France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year
by martinald on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:19AM
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No, it's that there is no time to do maintenance unless you have extra tracks. In NY you can close the one pair of tracks and do maintenance on the other. If you've only got dual track, then you can't do maintenance.