To wonder what’s going to happen on the tube with face covering and hot weather

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Just that really. Usually at this time of year we are being warned to carry water with us, not wear hot clothes etc.
Now it’s mandatory to wear a face covering - which precludes the drinking of water and obviously makes you even hotter.
Not sure there’s really a solution but wonder how this will evolve.

That's what I thought. My understanding is that they are individual private concerns, each cab driver owns his own cab and is self employed.

They obviously work together with the uni surface side of TFL with bus people closing ranks for them.

But I don't know what the mechanism would be for them being utilised by TFL in the pandemic. Do you mean TFL paying the fares, or a proportion of them?

Don't know where uni came from! Just surface, obv!

Hi, yes I think I just meant there are many cabbies wanting to work and obviously London is pretty quiet at the moment. They seem a safer mode of transport with the partition and able to open windows, driver wearing a mask. I just thought there could have been some use for them with TFL reducing their tariffs and somehow (I don’t have the answers) using them for people instead of a crowded tube/bus. I think one of the black cab apps was doing a contract with the NHS.

A lot of hotter countries have travel infrastructures that are designed to deal with hot stifling weather and have air con. Not all of course but a lot do.

The tube is hideous in the summer, very little air and oppressive heat. I've travelled on it for years including during pregnancy and it's a nightmare. I also find masks make me hot. If the tubes are less busy that will help a little but to be honest the key is knowing where to stand to get the most comfortable position. If you can get near the windows on the carriage doors you'll at least get some breeze and temporary respite. That's my plan anyway!

Lots of people will faint. (lots do every summer in London tubes anyway).