UK meltdown
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- kungfukid
what the hell is wrong with London's transport system?!? It doesn't work when it gets too hot and it doesn't work when things get to too wet and don't get me started on winter performance.
They advise you either to bring water with you when you get on the tube or even NOT to use it. Why haven't they sorted out any form of air conditioning? They know the planet isn't getting cooler any quicker and it gets more hot each year? People die and suffer in the heat after spending a small fortune for the privilege.
I don't have an answer to the problem, but then who does? What happened to the solutions from the competition launched a few years back to find an answer to the air con problem for the underground?
argh!!
- thismanslife0
Chill.
:)
- honest0
i'm trying, but I'm breaking sweat in doing so
- Engage_London0
its sensible to advise people about taking a bottle of water with them
- mydo0
didn't livingston offer 1/4 mil if anyone could invent air con for the underground... some guy said. year just use snow machines... everyone agreed, then pretended it had never been thought of...
- Chimp0
I think it all has to do with how much they wanna spend on it. The directors dont have to use the tube because they get paid millions, so they don't care.
- Kuz0
i thought this was a thread on the Meltdown festival!
you made me click for nowt!
- sweetasbro0
move to Australia like the rest of the "sensible" crews
- Gordy220
This morning I was stuck on a 'crowded' central line tube for 20 minutes - people collasping etc.
Awful / hidious / horrible.
Damn the fatcat metronet w*nckers.
- honest0
helicoptor taxis, it's the way forward.
You can blast your way through rush-hour traffic:
- mydo0
look someone bought one, painted it white with a blue stripe down the side. lame.
- plamensk10
Solution:
When you get dehydrated lick the sweat off the nearest female passenger.
- mrming0
AFAIK the cash prize for inventing a cooling system for the tube is still up for grabs. I think 18 designs have been submitted but none have been pratical enough in terms of cost / ease of implementation.
It's a more difficult problem than you might think because there's no real possiblity of any upward ventilation as all the lines have tons of building on top of them. Also any system would have to be implemented with a minimum of disruption to the service as nobody would tolerate a break in the service. :(
- kelpie0
suck the air down and run it through the sewers...
though I'm not sure if that would condition the air so much as make it stink of shit.
Oh well, back to the drawring board ;)
- mrming0
LMAO! Cool but shitty :)
- kelpie0
you Londoners always want to have your cake and eat it too ;)
- piers0
buy a scooter or a supermoto bike. Thats the best way to get around london and it works out cheaper than buying travelcards for the underground. Worked for me.
- mrming0
I've already got one you see. No tube for me! Although some fool did run me off the road on my lovely Vespa last week and now I'm on a plastic hire scooter. It still kicks the ass of the sweaty tube though!