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I'm sure others will disagree but, as a Londoner, I wish they'd spent the money on the rest of the system. There's a cohort of us that have to put our fingers
by LightG 4y ago
I'm sure others will disagree but, as a Londoner, I wish they'd spent the money on the rest of the system.
There's a cohort of us that have to put our fingers in our ears on the approach to some stations as the grinding of wheels against tracks reaches an incredible volume. Pretty sure it must be illegal on some checklist somewhere.
Not to mention the raggedy state of most of the other lines. I'll stop before this becomes a full blown rant.
- mcintyre1994 4y agoI’ll always remember that extremely hot summer when someone tweeted at the Central Line support twitter account about how bad it was, and got a cheery response that it’ll be sorted in “early 2030” when they get new trains with air conditioning.
- blibble 4y agoit's a difficult problem to solve as air conditioning doesn't produce cold, it only moves the heat elsewhere (producing more heat in the process) on a tube train there's nowhere to expel the heat other than the tunnel, which doesn't really solve the problem (plus the trains are small enough as it is, without large AC units)
- LightG 4y agoAnd yet, they manage it Tokyo ... It's a lack of funding and vision, not technology ... which returns us to my original point that I wish the money had goone on the existing network.
- blibble 4y agoit would require re-boring of all the deep-level tube tunnels to make them larger which essentially isn't possible, so that would require building an entire new London Underground this would cost probably a trillion pounds
- lostlogin 4y agoIt’ll be interesting to see how it fares in 2030. The ground around the tubes is heating up, slowly and steadily from something like 14 degrees centigrade when the tube systems was built, to over 20 degrees now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling
- KaiserPro 4y agoIts going to get worse, as the present government is making sure that TFL (the organisation incharge of running transport in london) cannot raise enough money to cover costs.
- secondcoming 4y agoBendy track will result in screeches. I used live near Clapham Junction and you’d hear it there. The only solution is maglev.
- blitzar 4y agoNot sure what you mean ... Northern line had a much needed extension along to battersea Picadilly line stations have been seeing a lot of elevator and escalator replacements. Circle and district line new trains are magnificent. Add in the tfl rail connections, the outer circle line of sorts that creates
- LightG 4y agoTravel more. Expect more. The London Underground is effective, but exceedingly average. The Liz line looks excellent on first impression. Some of it is decent. Some of it is terrible. I'd prefer a more even distribution than a spanking new line ... or both. But I'm sure we sprayed the money on the overspend ...
- blitzar 4y ago> I'd prefer a more even distribution Its like painting the Sydney harbour bridge, you start at one end and work your way to the other. By the time you get to the other side you have to go back and start again.
- jleahy 4y agoAhhh the northern line.
- pydry 4y agoTheres actually no legal limit to the noise level. I found it pretty terrifying when I discovered that.