Thread: Another six months of closures on Jubilee line to finish botched upgrade - Evening Standard
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Old November 24th 09, 04:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Another six months of closures on Jubilee line to finish botched upgrade - Evening Standard
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:34:40 +0000 (UTC),
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On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:22:43 +0000
Bruce wrote:
The firm working on the line has admitted it needs at least 10 weekend
shutdowns next year to introduce a satellite navigation signalling
system.

That'll work well underground.


There's a major national research & development project in progress
whose aims are to do exactly that - to bring the benefits of GPS to
tunnels.

Mind you, look at what happened to the idea of bringing mobile phone
reception to the Underground ...

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