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Elizabeth line looks sooo fresh, indeed.

How come it took so long to build, besides the technical difficulty of penetrating the land? And in what major ways do you think it changes the city?

With Covid changing commute Habits as well as the housing shortage, it seems to have arrived on time to open up especially the west side (…though I don’t recognize any of the new station names)!

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Very interesting questions, one very annoying reason for the delay is that signaling systems are not standardized along London. In fact, the trains on the Elizabeth line has to switch between three different ones which adds a lot of complexity and testing... Other than that, mostly really complicated boring with the sand and the many tunnels it had to criss-cross.

I think we'll see a much more affluent eastern side, and hopefully they'll build more bridges connecting eastern regions across the Thames now when the connection is good enough for companies to set up shop in eastern and western London.

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What a nightmare of calculations…!

They have no intention of standardizing the signals then, I suppose? It comes with no surprise that the history of the tube creates complications as such.

That’s an interesting effect on the landscape of London- shrinking while the line extends.

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