On Thu, 24 May 2012 07:04:55 -0700 (PDT)
neill wrote:
According to the latest from the BBC they were on the train for fours
hours. Just how long does it take for someone to decide that a train
cannot be moved? And why can't the emergency services overrule TFL,

**** knows. Probably the usual mix of public sector incompentance and no one
wanting to take any decisions or responsibility but instead just passing the
problem up to the next level of management who have even less an idea of
whats actually happening than the previous level.

demand, or order the the power turned off under threat of arrest of
individual staff, and extract the passengers vian the tunnel, after
say, a maximum of 30 minutes? If someone had died, everyone from 'the
man with his finger on the pulse' up to Boris would have been feeling
the heat today

There'd be a lot of insincere hang wringing, endless trite "lessons will be
learnt" media statements from talking heads and after a year it would be
forgotten about and everything would carry on as before until the next time.

B2003