Mayor and managers sing from different song sheets on driverless tube trains

Will the next generation of London’s tube trains have driver’s cabs or not? There seems to be some back peddling within Transport for London over an apparent earlier commitment to push ahead with automation like that already under way in Paris (New Transit November/December 2011).

London Mayor Boris Johnson, before his re-election to the post this summer, promised never to order tube trains with conventional driving cabs again, though it was conveniently unclear what he meant by...