Many road users were last night stuck on motorways like the M25 that runs along the Greater London area. Some road users have been on the road since the morning and didn't make much progress into the early hours of the night and were mental of abandoning their cars on the M25. The worst affected areas around London were Kent, Surrey and Essex This morning there are many problems with the road networks in London and the main motorways feeding into the capital.
The M3 which runs from Southampton,Hampshire,to London has major traffic issues around the Bagshot and Lightwater region southbound into London.
A lorry has jack knifed in Essex on the M25 towards Canterbury in Kent resulting in lane closure for several hours. Furthermore the Dartford crossing Thurrock in Essex and Dartford in Kent had to be done for several hours for protection reasons.
Black Knife Block
Many minor accidents in and around London brought traffic to a unblemished standstill forcing travellers out of their cars and walking for up to 12 miles home or to work. One of these was on the South Circular near Mortlake. The latest reports have warned about icy roads in all of the Essex, Surrey and Kent counties but no reports as such for Hertfordshire.
London Rail Network
South East trains have come under a lot of pressure from the collective with the help of the London radio station Lbc where the spokesperson for the train firm clearly did not know how many trains have been delayed from the night before and undoubtedly stayed put over night with passengers trapped with nowhere to go. To add insult to injury, the website had all trains running on time in and out of the main London train stations that they control from such as Charing Cross station and Victoria station.
At St Pancras International station there were many London chauffeurs and drivers from vast minicab companies waiting for hours on end for the Paris and Brussels trains that kept being put back supplementary more and some were even cancelled due to the tunnels being blocked with one train braking down in Ashford and with the excess trains coming into both directions from London to Paris and Brussels. All trains were full of passengers due to many flights from both Brussels and Paris to London's Airports Heathrow and Gatwick being cancelled.
London Airports
At London's Gatwick airport the snow was not easing off at all so much so that clearing the runways became impossible to cope and therefore the airport had to be done down until supplementary notice. This of policy put added pressure on other London airports such as London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow but even there the incoming flights from cities like Paris were being cancelled and diverted to other Uk airports such as Birmingham International airport and West Midlands.
Lbc radio station was as usual talking to many London Taxi driver and chauffeurs who were updating regularly on the latest traffic jams. Many Taxi rides became too high-priced to take with the London Black Cabs being on meters charging waiting time but there was an increased ask for minicabs and Chauffeur driven cars in London and the home counties where many habitancy opted out for a chauffeur driven 4X4 / off road vehicle to get safely to their destinations.
London Air, Road and Rail vehicle Affected by Snow