Co-ordination between Transport for London and the capital’s borough councils ‘could have been better’ on the morning of 2 February, when heavy snow brought the city to a standstill, according to the chairman of the London Resilience Local Authority Panel.
Chris Duffield, who is also chief executive of the City of London, said more clarity was needed over who implements local authority control centre decisions in the event of a ‘less than major’ incident.
Val Shawcross, chair of the London Assembly transport committee, said the London Ambulance Service ‘didn’t think it got enough support from boroughs’.
And Peter Hendy, TfL transport commissioner, defended the decision to suspend the entire bus service. ‘If snow was regular in London we’d have snow chains, but we’d need 48,000 for all the buses, which would take 10 days to fit while the buses were taken off the road.’
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