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Seems like a national security issue if there’s a single point of failure a few miles away that can take down one of Europe’s largest airports and global air travel.
My second thought is, UK infra is crumbling so bad, this is really most likely just business as usual...
Seems like a national security issue if there’s a single point of failure a few miles away that can take down one of Europe’s largest airports and global air travel.
Seems like a national security issue if there’s a single point of failure a few miles away that can take down one of Europe’s largest airports and global air travel.
This was my first thought. My second thought is, UK infra is crumbling so bad, this is really most likely just business as usual...
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I doubt they would suspend flights for that. Heathrow is used by people from all over South England, not just London, so a good proportion of customers come by car. Not to mention the people doing transits. Also TFL has a stock of buses which they use if a rail line goes down.
The Piccadilly line isn't noted as suspended, presumably it has its own electricity feed, so there are even still trains you could get.
They didn't have enough solar panels on the roof?
Seems like a national security issue if there’s a single point of failure a few miles away that can take down one of Europe’s largest airports and global air travel.
And no, it is not a national security issue. There are three other airports in the London region, plus RAF Norholt and RAF Kenly inside the M25 ring.
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This was my first thought. My second thought is, UK infra is crumbling so bad, this is really most likely just business as usual...
It's all been privatized and they don't care about anything other than maintaing profits so of course we're seeing the effects now. It's also why every single water provider in the UK is dumping raw sewage into our rivers and when the government tries to make them fix it they cry about how that will eat into their profits and how it's unfair.
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This was my first thought. My second thought is, UK infra is crumbling so bad, this is really most likely just business as usual...
It's all been privatized and they don't care about anything other than maintaing profits so of course we're seeing the effects now. It's also why every single water provider in the UK is dumping raw sewage into our rivers and when the government tries to make them fix it they cry about how that will eat into their profits and how it's unfair.
The UK electricity grid is nationalised - it's run by the National Energy System Operator (NESO).