After this week's record-breaking temperatures TfL hope the technology will soon mean cooler commutes.
Though the project has received 70% of its funding from the Department for Transport , London transport bosses said the expansion of trials and rollout of the technology on other Tube lines depended on securing a long-term funding deal from the government.
another short-term extensionIf the tests are successful, TfL hopes the panels could be used to cool other deep Tube lines, which has been "prohibitively expensive" in the past.In 2003, a competition was launched to find a solution to cool down the London Underground.Follow BBC London on
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