It’s shit, but the reason they can afford to take so long is that Greenwich DLR is about 2 mins away
🤣🤣🤣 Joke of a country. That would have taken a week or two in other countries.
Another privatisation success
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…is it just one guy fitting them?
Are they being built by hand or something?
It took them 18 months to replace the escalators at Kentish Town!
To be fair it means dismantling and reassembling half the station to upgrade the lifts, it’s not a case of plug and play.
Christ
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They will end up pulling the escalators out then realising why they are so shit in the first place, because the whole station is a gnarly botched mess caused by penny pinching when it was originally built – because it was funded thru private finance initiative (pfi).
This is gonna be Kentish town #2 & I bet it doesn’t open “next spring” 😀
Anecdotally, the last time (one of two times) I went through this station, the escalators were out of service. We had to walk up through multiple fights of stairs in what felt _very_ back of house.
To be closed for a whole year though, they must be doing some sort of structural changes to the station… Surely?
Could they make the rest of the station a bit less wank in general in the meantime
Get the Chinese in to do it. It’d be done in less than a month.
As somebody in the construction industry It always amuses me that people have such unrealistic expectations about how long it takes to build things.
It honestly is quite hard to replace a massive piece of machinery in an underground constrained site.
Due to the configuration of the low level escalators they will probably need to build some kind of elaborate lifting structure in order to even do the work.
‘In Japan they can do it in a weekend’. No they can’t. Unless the escalators can be removed and installed in one piece.
They will also be doing various other refurbishment work while the station is closed.
A whole year to install escalators, wtf. So the workers will show up on day one, go for lunch and come back on the afternoon of the final day then…
I could learn how to install an escalator and do it myself quicker than that.
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Do they have to smelt the ore on site?
This country is such a shambles. Japan can rebuild earthquake-hit highways in weeks, China can build high-speed rail lines in months or years.
Here, escalator replacement, a year. Want a new train line, 20 years.
But it’s sooooooo far from Greenwich DLR. The tourists might collapse from exhaustion
You will see a lot of local businesses shutting down during the closure, especially hospitality!
Really bizarre that it’ll take that long.
The escalations at Stratford international DLR are also more broken than working, despite being closed for months at a time recently.
Are they ordering the hardware off aliexpress or something?
How the fuck does it take a year to replace escalators?
Almost a year of closure is unacceptable, we should escalate this.
It’s taking that long because the workers have to use the stairs.
On the plus side the other stations will be free to cross the river due to Silvertown tunnel concessions.
https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/silvertown-tunnel#on-this-page-5
It’s shit, but the reason they can afford to take so long is that Greenwich DLR is about 2 mins away
🤣🤣🤣 Joke of a country. That would have taken a week or two in other countries.
Another privatisation success
/s
…is it just one guy fitting them?
Are they being built by hand or something?
It took them 18 months to replace the escalators at Kentish Town!
To be fair it means dismantling and reassembling half the station to upgrade the lifts, it’s not a case of plug and play.
Christ
[deleted]
They will end up pulling the escalators out then realising why they are so shit in the first place, because the whole station is a gnarly botched mess caused by penny pinching when it was originally built – because it was funded thru private finance initiative (pfi).
This is gonna be Kentish town #2 & I bet it doesn’t open “next spring” 😀
Anecdotally, the last time (one of two times) I went through this station, the escalators were out of service. We had to walk up through multiple fights of stairs in what felt _very_ back of house.
To be closed for a whole year though, they must be doing some sort of structural changes to the station… Surely?
Could they make the rest of the station a bit less wank in general in the meantime
Get the Chinese in to do it. It’d be done in less than a month.
As somebody in the construction industry It always amuses me that people have such unrealistic expectations about how long it takes to build things.
It honestly is quite hard to replace a massive piece of machinery in an underground constrained site.
Due to the configuration of the low level escalators they will probably need to build some kind of elaborate lifting structure in order to even do the work.
‘In Japan they can do it in a weekend’. No they can’t. Unless the escalators can be removed and installed in one piece.
They will also be doing various other refurbishment work while the station is closed.
A whole year to install escalators, wtf. So the workers will show up on day one, go for lunch and come back on the afternoon of the final day then…
I could learn how to install an escalator and do it myself quicker than that.
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