Transit union’s D.C. local slams dangerous driverless trains scheme

Transit union’s D.C. local slams dangerous driverless trains scheme

WASHINGTON—Calling it a dangerous idea that could kill people, unionized workers who drive and work on D.C.’s Metro subway trains picketed in protest of the subway management’s plan to make those trains driverless. And then, after their chanting and picketing on June 26 in front of Metro’s offices just south of the Mall, more than 100 members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 marched inside to let the subway system’s board know just how dan…