ES Views Letter of the Day: Open for business? Not when it snows

Having experienced some of the worst travelling conditions in north London on Sunday, it’s easy to blame the weather when it is abundantly clear that London’s transport gurus are consistent in their continued failings.

With large parts of the surface section of the Piccadilly line inoperable, no local buses, no taxis, no local stopping services on the Great Northern line, how is this city supposed to function?

If management could even be bothered to respond professionally to the first snowfall of the season we might have had half a chance but, being a Sunday, it was pushed to the sidelines.

I don’t want to hear any more soundbites about London being “open for business”, being the “greatest city in the world” or any other clichéd nonsense when we so monumentally fail to keep our roads and rail systems in proper functioning order.
David O’Brien