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Up, both above and underground, close to the tfl system. you must be limited to what you can do? there are real constraints in london. so much of the land is paved and we're losing more land to paving as people pave over their front driveways and all of that, so we're trying to work against that by putting in place what we call sustainable drainage. that means that when we introduce new shrubs, new trees into our paving, that actually helps slow down the rainfall, so there are things we can do. we are also enhancing our pumps and drainage systems so that we can get water away more quickly and ...

We're seeing warmer, wetter, winters, drier, hottersummers. this all puts a lot of stress on our transport network and it's something we're really planning for now and taking account of, so that we're ready as the climate becomes more extreme in future. there was some significant flash flooding in london in the summerand of course, we saw those horrific scenes on the metro system in china. how much has this been an alarm call for tfl? we looked with real serious concern at what happened notjust in china, but also closer to home in countries like germany, where we saw really extreme flooding, a...

Something we're really planning for now and taking account of so that we're ready as the climate becomes more extreme in future. there was some significant flash flooding in london in the summer. of course we saw those horrific scenes on the metro system in china. how much has this been an alarm call for tfl? we looked with real serious concern at what happened, notjust in china, but also closer to home in countries like germany, where we saw really extreme flooding. and i think that is a real wake—up call. we know that we can have extreme rain of the kind we had in germany here in london no...

Something we're really planning for now and taking account of so we are ready as the climate becomes more extreme in future. there were some significant flash flooding in london in the summer. of course we saw those horrific scenes in the metro system in china. how much has this been an alarm call for tfl? we looked with real serious concern at what happened, notjust in china, but also closer to home in countries like germany, where we saw really extreme flooding. and i think that is a real wake—up call. we know we can have extreme rain of the kind we had in germany here in london now. we do...