CASE EXAMPLE 2 | BAD WEATHER
| The contracts provide specific guidance on responsibility for dealing with bad weather service disruptions. The Infracos are not normally granted relief in cases of bad weather, except in extreme cases such as the "extraordinary storm" of January 2003. Do the parties manage bad weather incidents effectively? |
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- "Extraordinary storm" of snow (January 2003)
- A firefighter's strike and other line closures also disrupted services on this day
- The parties took some steps to mitigate the storm's effects
- But there were weaknesses in planning and response
- The Infracos were granted relief from most of the train availability abatements, but only after much debate
- LUL and the Infracos have since taken remedial action, but a January 2004 bad weather incident showed that some lessons were not learned