All TfL bus services have been suspended due to the snow.

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...

Matthew Dickinson wrote:
All TfL bus services have been suspended due to the snow.

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...


BBC News have just been interviewing a BBC employee who's walking home
from the West End. There are loads of people stranded in Central London
and having to walk home. He was 3 miles into a 5 mile walk.

Why can't they run buses, I got home from central london late tonight by
private cab and the main routes were no problem at all.

Stuart wrote:
Matthew Dickinson wrote:
All TfL bus services have been suspended due to the snow.

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...

BBC News have just been interviewing a BBC employee who's walking home
from the West End. There are loads of people stranded in Central
London and having to walk home. He was 3 miles into a 5 mile walk.

Why can't they run buses, I got home from central london late tonight
by private cab and the main routes were no problem at all.

What time? Cricklewood Broadway was covered in snow at 11pm - the salt
seemed to have drained away.

John Rowland wrote:
Stuart wrote:

Why can't they run buses, I got home from central london late tonight
by private cab and the main routes were no problem at all.


What time? Cricklewood Broadway was covered in snow at 11pm - the salt
seemed to have drained away.


About 11. The main routes we went up were fine, gritted and drivable,
albeit slow.

On 2 Feb, 01:49, Stuart wrote:
Matthew Dickinson wrote:
All TfL bus services have been suspended due to the snow.

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...

BBC News have just been interviewing a BBC employee who's walking home
from the West End. There are loads of people stranded in Central London
and having to walk home. He was 3 miles into a 5 mile walk.

BBC employees get a free taxi home if they finish work after 22:45 and
there's no public transport

Why can't they run buses, I got home from central london late tonight by
private cab and the main routes were no problem at all.

Bus drivers are lazy scum?

How do you know the bus drivers took the decision, surely it's highly
likely that management took the decision to avoid accidents and an
appearance in court.

I wouldn't do their job and put up with people like you.
Bus drivers are lazy scum?

BoristheSpider wrote:

How do you know the bus drivers took the decision, surely it's highly
likely that management took the decision to avoid accidents and an
appearance in court.

So basically it's the litigious society we live in. Yay for the lawyers!

Can we get a law passed that in future when there's such a risk, lawyer must
be forced to drive with all liability on them, at the risk of being
disbarred? ;-)

Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
BoristheSpider wrote:

How do you know the bus drivers took the decision, surely it's highly
likely that management took the decision to avoid accidents and an
appearance in court.

So basically it's the litigious society we live in. Yay for the lawyers!

Can we get a law passed that in future when there's such a risk, lawyer must
be forced to drive with all liability on them, at the risk of being
disbarred? ;-)



Are you sure it's not a condition of the insurance that it's void if you
drive when the police have advised you not to because of the weather
conditions? It's not so much civil litigation as criminal prosecution
I'd be worried about in those circumstances.

Anyway, the buses are starting to operate again, albeit on a tiny number
of routes:

"ALL ROUTES IN THE LONDON AREA: Most London Buses services are not
operating due to adverse weather conditions. Full services are operating
on 427 607 and RV1. Reduced services are operating on Routes 58 60 79 83
92 94 212 308 488."

Tom

"BoristheSpider" wrote in message
...
How do you know the bus drivers took the decision, surely it's highly
likely that management took the decision to avoid accidents and an
appearance in court.

I wouldn't do their job and put up with people like you.
Bus drivers are lazy scum?

Surely an accident is an every day occurance anyway. Should we have no buses
on the basis there might be an accident. No buses when there is rain, fog,
below zero temperatures. Perhaps we could all hibernate.

Kevin

On 2 Feb, 07:32, Paul Weaver wrote:

On 2 Feb, 01:49, Stuart wrote:

Matthew Dickinson wrote:
All TfL bus services have been suspended due to the snow.

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...

BBC News have just been interviewing a BBC employee who's walking home
from the West End. There are loads of people stranded in Central London
and having to walk home. He was 3 miles into a 5 mile walk.

BBC employees get a free taxi home if they finish work after 22:45 and
there's no public transport

Why can't they run buses, I got home from central london late tonight by
private cab and the main routes were no problem at all.

Bus drivers are lazy scum?

You're an idiot?