A Guide To Completely Shutting A Town Off

Step 1: Close down the train line, one of the main forms of travel in the town.
Step 2: Adopt a gritting policy guaranteed to piss everyone off, stop bus services and make main roads dangerous.

In many parts of Greater Manchester this morning there were no buses running, oddly enough train services were running - not perfectly, but they were running, which may have been useful in Oldham - but alas, it's been decided we're getting a more expensive alternative, and so no more trains.

The Metrolink conversion was supposed to be done in stages, in order to avoid situations like today (and probably tomorrow too), but that was reneged on. I'm too tired at the moment to have a proper tirade, so I'll just settle on announcing the fucking geniuses who thought that a good idea are cunts.

Edit - seems nationalrail has died under the requests, and the GMPTE website this morning was running like a blind man doing the hurdles. Information overload? Not for the fuckers trying to get the information.