London on red alert for a flash flooded Underground
O2 London (TfL Flickr)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has warned Londoners to expect the worst if this week’s weather forecast is accurate. The South East of England is on alert for severe thunderstorms and heavy rain, after a prolonged dry spell has left the parks parched and a hose pipe ban in place. Most seriously though, the Mayor fears for the integrity of the Underground – the oldest subterranean railway network in the world.
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All vital functions of society, now has to provide for robustness, thus for redundancy and resilency.
As vulnerable, even worse most risky, current, electrification of railways…, simply no longer is timely!
For Industry, for clients and for environment…, diesel electric, any electrification is better, than current mono structure, where, too obviously redundancy is missing! – and already is a devastating bottleneck!