SIR – When the post-mortems are carried out on this winter’s travel chaos, we wonder what plans our sainted leaders will devise to address future ‘surprise’ weather.
Maybe they will surprise us for once with an inspired strategy?
Bradford has a unique opportunity to get ahead of the game – we have an enormous hole in the city centre.
From this summer onwards, if Bradford Council buys up all the salt and grit it can (at cheap summer prices), this could be moulded into a huge and picturesque mountain on the defunct Westfield site, drawing admiring tourists from miles around, to ride its cable-car and wonder at its spectacular views.
And then, when the next ‘surprise’ winter comes along, not only would Bradford have plenty of grit for its own roads and paths, it would also be in a position to sell off vast chunks of the ‘Salty Mountain’ to richer, but less strategic, councils (at winter-panic prices, of course), thus making a vast profit on the enterprise.
Will they do that? Nope – but they’ll probably set up a committee.
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