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You've got an exclusive story about the
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air conditioning on the tube, or rather
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the lack thereof. Regular users of the
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Central Line or the Victoria Line or the
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Bakerloo Line, people who pass through
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Oxford Circus, one of the busiest
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stations at the very center of the tube
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>> One of the lowest down.
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>> Indeed, indeed, and it's massively busy
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as well. They might have noticed several
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years ago there were these massive air
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vents installed at the top of all of the
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platforms. This was part of a
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multi-million pound investment by TfL at
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the time to install air conditioning on
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these platforms because they got so
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unbelievably hot during the summer. But
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I can reveal that actually since the
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beginning of last year or possibly even
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before that, these cooling systems have
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been totally decommissioned. I mean,
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they don't actually work anymore. But
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we've already [clears throat] spent the
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money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So TfL spent
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millions on this and they don't even use
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them. Now, I I what I haven't
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established at the moment is whether
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they broke or whether they're too
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expensive to operate or whatever, but
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this multi-million pound investment and
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it's not even being used.
