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

"Tom Barry" wrote in message
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snip
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.


I doubt very much if those were the circumstances. Nothing about advice from
the police on Tfl's website.

On 2 Feb, 13:01, "pg123" wrote:
"Tom Barry" wrote in message

...
snip

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.

I doubt very much if those were the circumstances. Nothing about advice from
the police on Tfl's website.

Bloody idiots at TfL running the tube system though...for example,
rather than ruin a much needed Met line from Baker Street into the
CIty (pretty much covered, no snow except around Faringdon, other
trains running fine through there, they tried to send it out to
Watford! When those coming in fr9om out there were all failing owing
to electrical third rail pick up faults / shorting out. So what
happenerd? Yup! it failed, twixt Finchley Road & Wembley....

On 2 Feb, 13:22, Chris wrote:

Bloody idiots at TfL running the tube system though...for example,
rather than ruin a much needed Met line from Baker Street into the
CIty (pretty much covered, no snow except around Faringdon, other
trains running fine through there, they tried to send it out to
Watford! When those coming in fr9om out there were all failing owing
to electrical third rail pick up faults / shorting out. So what
happenerd? Yup! it failed, twixt Finchley Road & Wembley....

At 0830 this morning, that was what they were doing, using C Stock.

Neil

On Feb 2, 1:48*pm, Neil Williams wrote:
Bloody idiots at TfL running the tube system though...for example,
rather than ruin a much needed Met line from Baker Street into the
CIty (pretty much covered, no snow except around Faringdon, other
trains running fine through there, they tried to send it out to
Watford! When those coming in fr9om out there were all failing owing
to electrical third rail pick up faults / shorting out. So what
happenerd? Yup! it failed, twixt Finchley Road & Wembley....

At 0830 this morning, that was what they were doing, using C Stock.

Quite. Given that the Met depot is in Wembley, that terminating
southbound trains at Baker Street is easy, and that if you use C-stock
you can run a through service to Edgware Road (early this morning) and
Hammersmith (by mid-afternoon), running the shuttle using H&C stock
seems sensible.

Running it to turn around at Whitechapel would've been better than
running it to Aldgate though (as it was there was no service between
Aldgate and Tower Hill or between Liverpool Street and Aldgate East,
which was annoying).

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

"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