Dec 22 2006
MORE TRANSPORT CHAOS
Yesterday when the trains were fully booked and many internal flights were cancelled, to cap it all the authorities closed two lanes and then the whole southbound M40 for the whole day.
As someone trying to get to the Midlands and back that day I experienced the chaos for myself, as thousands of cars were routed through the narrow roads of Banbury and headed south on roads suitable for light local traffic only, leading to very long delays and annoyance to people living near the roads.
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
If it was a private toll road do you think it would be cleared quicker? You bet it would. Create incentives and congestion will decrease. Remove government meddling and congestion would disappear.
Simillar over here in the East Midlands.
Central Trains ran no service on Christmas Eve at all and its looking pretty much the same for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day!