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dougm
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dougm asked in TravelUnited KingdomLondon · 1 decade ago

imaginary snow ploughs in central London ..?

I was in central London the past two days and didn't see a single snow plough. What I did see was two street cleaners throwing grit from the back of their wheelie bins. Did anyone actually see this imaginary fleet of snow ploughs ?

Update:

> They don't have any snow ploughs, Carrie S

Then why does the BBC keep referring to snow ploughs and if it costs £3.5 billion in lost productivity, how does this compare to a few snow ploughs.

I suspect that the real answer is that since the privatization of services there is no profit in it. Same as keeping reserve generating power, as when the tube ground to a halt last year as some transformer blew up. But you won't see that on the BBC either.

There is no point in having snow ploughs if we're only to use them once every 2-3 years

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Snow ploughs are no use in the city, where do they push the snow, onto the pavement or the other side of the road so they only clear one half, gritting is best for in the city.

  • 5 years ago

    I'll have to remember that one.Pretty good! Now a blond joke for you! One day a blond was driving along a road when she started to cross a bridge and saw on the right, a blond sitting in a rowboat in the middle of an empty corn field trying to row her way through the field! So the blond got out of the car and went to the edge of the road and started yelling at the blond in the rowboat.''What in the world do you think your doing out there?!,she asked.''You're the type that gives us blonds a bad name,why if I could swim, I would come out there and tip that boat over!''

  • 1 decade ago

    They don't have any snow ploughs - that's the whole point. London isn't used to having snow like this and so all of a sudden, we have this freak weather and we're expected to magic snowploughs out of thin air.

  • 1 decade ago

    Snow plows only work during the very early morning, so of course you wouldn't have seen them. And anybody who says that this is a third world country should fly over to africa and make a comparison, get real.

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  • 1 decade ago

    There is no point in having snow ploughs if we're only to use them once every 2-3 years

  • Not me.

    Only "vital" main roads were actually gritted. Bloody ridiculous, Since when were we a third world country?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    stipid fake journalists

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, because they are 'imaginary'.

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