~SNOW ~ Travel Update

By · February 8, 2007 at 10:00 am · No comments · Latest News · Report an error ·
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If you’re seven years old all that white stuff falling this morning would have been a real treat. If you’re a little older and have to get somewhere today it’s not as much fun (unless you’re well wrapped up and intend to tramp to work). Snow is still falling and should continue for the next couple of hours at least.

Plenty of delays as expected on lots of the tube today, mostly down to signal failures. At 10am it’s the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines that are really screwed. Meanwhile Bakerloo, Jubilee, Piccadilly and of course Northern lines are all part suspended. Keep an eye on TFL for updates.

Heathrow so far have cancelled 26 flights, BA are set to ground some of their short-haul flights. Gatwick cancelled 20 flights and Stansted, Luton and City airports were all temporarily closed because of snow on the runways.

And the roads are very dicey.

Watch how you go.

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  • Dave

    Here’s a question – what do they do in countries where it snows A LOT? Are they as inept at dealing with a few centimetres of snow as we are? Are they in a state of perpetual chaos and disruption?

    Or do they somehow manage to deal with it? Maybe they have innovative technologies at their disposal. One can only imagine a society where next-generation technologies such as road grit and railway signals that are designed for cold weather exist. Utopia.

    This country drives me nuts sometimes.

  • Owen Blacker

    But it’s so perdy!

    Sorry, snow turns me back into a seven-year-old. I am so looking forward to having a pre-teenage child of my own to play in the snow with ;o)

  • mike

    what do they do in countries where it snows A LOT?

    From what I remember before I fell asleep watching March of the Penguins they try and get as far away from Morgan Freeman as possible.

    I am so looking forward to having a pre-teenage child of my own to play in the snow with ;o)

    I’m not even going to take the bait.

  • Ben

    This morning Harringay was a winter wonderland. Noe I’ve come into Holborn and it’s wet and horrible – why doesn’t snow stick to city?

  • Hazelt

    And the roads are very dicey.

    Dicey… and icy.

  • Louise

    What do they do in parts of the country where it snows fairly often?

    Not to sound like a grumpy northerner but up there they cope. They have these things called gritters that go out and clear the roads BEFORE everyone gets up so they can still go about they daily business with only minimal disruption.

    I’ve now been severely affected for 3 out of 4 winters I’ve lived in London on days where it hasn’t really snowed THAT much relatively speaking.

    GGGrrrr

    ok yes so I am a grumpy northerner, but only when it snows

  • TW

    what do they do in countries where it snows A LOT?

    Well…I’ve just returned from the very snowy country of Finland and its scary how well they cope.

    There’s lots of grit (put down during the night) and diggers and trucks to take away the excess snow off the roads (also during the night). The cars and buses have snow tyres and the people wear sensible footwear.

    But most importantly, they’re not scared of it! Everyone just carries on as normal and that’s really refreshing after enduring snowy days in the UK when the media go crazy and cars drive ridiculously slowly on roads that are totally clear of snow. *sigh*

    On the otherhand, small congrats to Southern trains who managed to get me into work perfectly well this morning – confused about underground trains not working and overground trains being fine though??

  • James Stewart

    And there was I thinking that moving back to London from Grand Rapids (Michigan, USA) this summer would be a good way to escape the snow.

    We currently have over a foot of snow, and temperatures have been around -15C for the past week. Sadly, there’s not much public transport to speak of, so it’s hard to say how it would cope. But the few buses there are kept running, and the major roads were plowed within a few hours of the major snowfall.

    Still, after the majority of the snow fell on Friday night, even the cinemas were closed over the weekend, and some schools were closed Monday and Tuesday.

  • catbird

    Well I was shocked to hear that the central line passengers were the best off this morning.
    I just didnt bother to travel in, waited until it thawed.

  • M@

    I walked in. Five miles from Whampstead. But it was ace. So much loveliness. Primrose Hill was like a Dickensian illustration with toboggans and snowmen. Then I got to Camden/Kentish Town and got pelted with snowballs and it became a bit shit.

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