{"id":152897,"date":"2010-01-08T04:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4834"},"modified":"2010-01-08T04:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T09:30:55","slug":"government-failed-to-act-despite-road-salt-warning-by-alison-little-daily-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/152897","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT FAILED TO ACT DESPITE ROAD SALT WARNING by Alison Little, Daily Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=165\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Met Office&quot;\">Met Office<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=320\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10&quot;\">UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>DITHERING ministers who failed to act for months on advice about \u00adpreparing for extreme weather contributed to this winter\u2019s road chaos, it was claimed yesterday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And when the bad weather finally hit last month, Government guidance to councils on how much salt they should have in stock \u2013 six days\u2019 worth \u2013 was woefully inadequate given that the UK is experiencing one of the worst winters in 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>A report for the Government completed in July and published in early August made 19 recommendations on what preparations should be made to ensure Britain\u2019s roads kept moving in the event of a severe winter.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Roads Liaison Group, drawn from national and local government, had been asked to report on the lessons of last winter\u2019s long cold snap which culminated in February in serious problems and saw many salt supplies almost exhausted.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: express.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4834\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9hmUscO2cjpoLkCPccYTMH47KK0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9hmUscO2cjpoLkCPccYTMH47KK0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9hmUscO2cjpoLkCPccYTMH47KK0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9hmUscO2cjpoLkCPccYTMH47KK0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/pVgxPwCH6fg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Met Office, UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10 DITHERING ministers who failed to act for months on advice about \u00adpreparing for extreme weather contributed to this winter\u2019s road chaos, it was claimed yesterday And when the bad weather finally hit last month, Government guidance to councils on how much salt they should have in stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}