Re: Fuel protesters plan M4 blockade

In article <MPG.1d8eb762f626ad8c98ac32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx says...
> In article <MPG.1d8e9e176c2f34a4989798@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pete Smith
> says...
>
> > Surely ambulances, police stations, council depots and
> > gas/water/elastictrickery depots have bunkered supplies?
> >
> Very little. They actually used the army driver training school bunkers
> around here in 2000 I believe.

Perhaps this is the impetus that they need to get some then.

>
> > Money : I try not to use it. I prefer debit cards.
> >
> Good aren't they?

Very. Used them for years.

One down/up side of money is it can be used in the sausage roll vending
machine at work. No money = no sausage rolls :-)

>
>
> > > b) We've got a bigger hammer than other groups though. Who else has the
> > > ability to bring the entire country to a grinding halt?
> >
> > A couple of convenient accidental breakdowns at certain points on the road
> > network would do that nicely! The recent closure of the M56 and A56 could
> > be carried out with a couple of tractors, or a dozen cars, and caused
> > mayhem across the North West and North Wales. Do the same on the M6, M4,
> > M5, M25 at the major intersections and you could bring the country to a
> > halt without disrupting fuel supplies.
> >
> But it won't as there's always a way around.

A single accident that needs both carriageways to be shut can *cripple*
transport in one end of the country. ISTR an accident on the M25 a few
months ago that had a *90* mile tailback.

Do that in a few major junctions, and you'd have trouble (but not quite as
much trouble as blockading refineries).

I just hope it all doesn't kick off. I'm due at a wedding this weekend!

Pete.

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