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[email protected] · February 2nd 09, 10:08 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (J.
Chisholm) wrote:

Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:38:14 +0000, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:

I can't remember this happening in the 70s and 80s when we had the
same levels of snowfall, so I wonder what has changed...

It didn't happen when Milton Keynes Council made the gritting errors a
few years ago which resulted in the entire grid system becoming an ice
rink. The timetable was given up and the buses that were out were
sliding all over the place, but a service was maintained as far as
humanly possible, and even restarted the next day, given that the
drivers themselves also had to get to/from home.

I wonder if this is in part because the weather is EXPECTED to get
worse. Last time it snowed in the afternoon and transport was
distrupted (by idiots in cars and HGVs) many people spent many hours
trying to get home and others slept in their offices.
Perhaps if such weather is expected it is better to make it
difficult to get to work in the first place

Sounds right. I decided not to attempt to get in from Cambridge to work in
Westminster this morning after discovering that almost no-one had got in
anyway.

I was expecting to cycle from King's Cross when FCC was running an almost
normal GN service. By 9:15 they had reduced that to two slows an hour so I
decided there were better ways to meet work objectives.

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Colin Rosenstiel