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I’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
by mcintyre1994 4y ago
I’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