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As someone who lives in the GTA... Your post doesn't make sense for two reasons. 1) Toronto airport was built to withstand these temperatures as we have reach
by kennend3 4y ago
As someone who lives in the GTA...
Your post doesn't make sense for two reasons.
1) Toronto airport was built to withstand these temperatures as we have reached them before. Basically it is within the expected design parameters. UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range.
Building infra is a lot of cost/benefit analysis. Building runways to experience the wide temperature range Toronto faces is very costly.
2) A lot of our infrastructure has been impacted by "extreme heat" as well.
How many times has GO transit issued "reduced speed" notifications due to track temperatures?
- xattt 4y ago> UK's airport is experiencing temperatures outside its normal range This certainly seems like a case of infra debt catching up.
- tehbeard 4y agoHow is it debt to not massively overengineer? They're concern would have been handling rainfall within nominal temperature ranges, not building it to handle every possible scenario? Would you consider it tech debt if the runway structure failed when a UFO landed due to its exhaust causing resonance?
- kennend3 4y agoOr the classic "penny wise and pound foolish" which is fitting as the saying originated in the UK. Perhaps they opted to error on the side of "lets be really optimistic on temperature ranges and save a lot of money on materials"?