By © Muhammad Haque
1655 Hrs GMT
London Monday 2 February 2009:
EVEN the Telegraph group of newspapers can see the absurdity of local councils trying to hide their failures under the snow....!
Will Boris Johnson see the 'joke'?
For him too ahs been hiding his own failures by posing in the snow as if THAT were a brave thing for him to do!
How ridiculous is it of Johnson to make the congestion charge cancellation stunt as if there was congestion in London today!
Every utterance by Boris Johnson is to be subject to verification by logic and rationality and empirical evident test
Nowhere so than on transport.
[To be continued]
Snow Britain: councils blame "difficult" snow
Council bosses claimed they had been hampered in gritting the roads because of "difficult" snow.
By Nick Allen
Last Updated: 3:47PM GMT 02 Feb 2009
A London taxi drives along a snow covered road in south London. Councils have been accused of not clearing suburban roads Photo: REUTERS
They said the snow had compacted overnight which negated the effects of gritting and made it harder to clear.
John Ransford, chief executive of the Local Government Association, told Channel 4 News: "Councils have been out all weekend using every mechanical and human resource they can.
"The problem with this sort of weather, and I'm standing in it now, is when you grit and it snows heavily, of course, the maximum effect of that gritting is lost.
"And on suburban roads, where there are lots of cars and not a great deal of traffic movement overnight, the snow compacts and makes it difficult to clear."
Mr Ransford was challenged that it was only six inches of snow, there had been advanced warning, London had still ground to a standstill and many would regard that as a "joke".
He said: "It's not a joke. We have been clearing all weekend, we have been making sure the roads are running.
"We have got to clear this quickly but I still say when you have got a lot of snow together, and no movement, it's more difficult to get traffic moving when there is the intense use in the morning."
Transport bosses and council chiefs appeared to blame eachother for the problems.
Transport for London's managing director of surface transport David Brown defended the decision to suspend all buses in the capital.
He said Transport for London had kept clear the "red route" roads it was responsible for, which make up about 5 per cent of the capital's road network and it was suburban roads, which councils are responsible for, which hadn't been cleared.
He said: "The local authorities will have their own priority roads to deal with and one of these issues we have had is that bus carriages are predominantly on suburban roads and it has been difficult to grit those roads."
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