On 2 Feb, 09:22, "Batman55" wrote:

According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken off
last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)

I don't know what conditions were like last night, so this may or may
not be justified. It isn't justified that there is no service in
central London this morning.

Neil

On 2 Feb, 09:34, Neil Williams wrote:

On 2 Feb, 09:22, "Batman55" wrote:

According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken off
last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)

I don't know what conditions were like last night, so this may or may
not be justified. *It isn't justified that there is no service in
central London this morning.


Things were starting to get messy last night. Lots of sirens
presumably because of lots of smashes on the roads - I saw one.
Conditions in central London should not be taken as being indicative
of those elsewhere.

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?

"Batman55" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken
off last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)

A very sensible decision.

How many buses in London have winter tyres fitted?

On 2 Feb, 09:41, Mizter T wrote:

Things were starting to get messy last night. Lots of sirens
presumably because of lots of smashes on the roads - I saw one.
Conditions in central London should not be taken as being indicative
of those elsewhere.

So you operate what *is* safe with some terminating short. One
assumes that not every bus garage was unable to get anything out and
into central London - and the Red Arrows operate from a garage in
Central London (don't they?) so they at least should be out.

Neil

Do they have seasonal tyres, autumn, winter, spring, summer, it's not
formula one!

Adrian wrote:
"Batman55" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:


According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken
off last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)


A very sensible decision.

How many buses in London have winter tyres fitted?

"Mr.G" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

A very sensible decision.

How many buses in London have winter tyres fitted?

Do they have seasonal tyres, autumn, winter, spring, summer, it's not
formula one!

It's not just your complete inability to post properly that shows you as
a clueless muppet.

On 2 Feb, 10:00, Adrian wrote:

How many buses in London have winter tyres fitted?

Carefully driven, they aren't necessary to drive on slush on a gritted
road, as was evidenced by the number of lorries and commuter coaches
that continued to drive around central London this morning, the only
problem being those walking by the road getting an occasional splash
of slush.

Then again, I did say carefully driven, which is not exactly a term I
would use to describe many London buses, unfortunately...

Neil

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.

Neil

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

Jim Chisholm

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On 2 Feb, 05:05, Epicentre wrote:

I'm fairly certain it happened in 1979 when I had to walk back from
Camden
Town to Stoke Newington one evening


Still suspended, though roads in London are perfectly passable. The
effect of this has been the closure of an awful lot of places (shops
in stations and the likes) normally staffed by lower-paid workers who
would most likely go to work by bus. The Tube is also operating very
little, probably due to staffing issues caused by same.

It's very poorly thought-out - they should really have looked at
operating what was OK rather than just cutting everything.

Neil

According to Howard Collins, COO of London Transport, buses were taken off
last night on the advice of the Met. Police (interview on LBC news)

The police do tend to give "odd" advice sometimes viz-a-viz transport
though.

When Midland Metro first opened, with a station next to the Hawthorns
(West Bromwich Albion ground), the police initially allowed only 12
people onto the metro platform at any one time after matches for safety
reasons!

Now given that one of the main reasons for rail-transport is to shift
crowds.......
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