What intrigues us is that even though many of the respondees to the committee cite these emergency plans as an example of how London is capable of getting its arse in gear, not all of the organisations boasting about it seem to have been able to, oh, we don't know, transfer some of the knowledge and common sense from their emergency training into another highly unusual situation. Which fule, for example, decided to wait until 6am to tell Boris Johnson that buses were off the roads?
TfL also gets a real kicking from the boroughs. Some complained about having to get travel information from TfL's website, and Enfield can't seem to stop putting the boot in (you can get the report from the BBC's website, it's quite funny). Shawcross has a personal whinge at the Mayor too, accusing him of not showing any concern, before or after. Clearly everyone's learned their lessons and have resolved to communicate better in future, then. Sigh.
And the outcome of all the soul searching? Why, another review of course! The London Resilience Local Authority Panel and TfL are going to "review the events" of the snowfall (didn't the LA committee just do that?) with a "view to identifying any lessons that might be learned". Because bureaucracy works, kids. Oh no, wait...