Helen Deborah Vecht wrote in message ...
"Richard J." typed


I'd be surprised if there was any. There's none out here in Aylesbury.

LU say that there are no Met trains to Chesham or Watford and severe delays
to Amersham, also delays on the Piccadilly, all caused by "adverse
weather". Can't they cope with a normal winter's day, or are conditions
really bad?

They're really not too bad round here.

No, they can't cope with a normal winter's day.

Last year when London ground to a halt after a inch of snow I
thankfully was waiting for a train just as it started to snow.
Starting work at 7am isn't great but at least I was on my way home
just at London went over the edge of chaos due to a bit of snow.
What I find highly amusing is this year. The media went overboard with
warnings and doom stories about the snow and how the whole of UK was
set to collapse on itself. Loads of warning for snow that quite
frankly didn't arrive when it was due and when it did was just a bit
of a a light dusting. But still London Underground managed to collapse
on itself. I mean how can London Underground be taken seriously as a
transport provider when after loads of warnings about snow coming and
when a little bit did come it just keeled over and died on its arse.
Up here in Yorkshire where to be honest we didn't have much more snow
than London but it was more. All the main roads kept moving and
gritting meant no main roads the snow set. And the only accidents
because of snow was people in 4x4 vehicles who ignored the big red
signs saying "ROAD CLOSED" on dodgy roads and promptly crashed.
And of course in true L.U style LU has blamed everyone from the snow
to maitanince companies for the problems and of course it self was
blameless. But the question to ask is surely L.U. should ensure its
contractors and the people resonsible for keeping trains running in
the snow were ready for the snow and were caple of dealing with it.
Instead of LU moaning and whinging in the press about everyone else
screwing up maybe it should make sure that next year when it snows it
is sure the trains will still run.