On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Andrew wrote:

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
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The use of ordinary service buses to transport the injured in London
this morning appears to have been a widespread and planned-for action.

Is there any precedent for this, I wonder?

In fact across the country many local government emergency plans include
powers to commandeer public buses to provide transport to safe areas in
emergency situations.

One of the things i was told when i moved to Oxford was that there were
enough buses in the city to evacuate it in half an hour. There certainly
are a lot of buses.

I was also told that the university's chemistry ddepartment had a plan for
dealing with a major fire at the organic chemistry laboratory which
involved doing just that!

tom

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