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, 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 now and we do need to make sure that our assets, our transport system, but all of london s infrastructure, is ready to cope. in terms of infrastructure, though, everything is so built up, both above and underground, close to the tfl system. you must be limited to what you can