| Topic: | Reply | |
| Posted by: | Richard Carter | |
| Date/Time: | 19/01/26 16:04:00 |
Sorry to have to disagree with you, Ivonne, but there is no evidence that the partial closure of Hammersmith Bridge has caused a problem for emergency vehicles:
"Although some MPs and local newspapers have cited delays to emergency vehicles on 999 calls as a problem from the bridge closure, this is not a claim that is supported by any available evidence. The London Ambulance Service say that they have ‘never released any information about the closure impacting response times’ and that ‘our response times may have gone up in the last five years but there would be many different factors to explain that.’ The London Fire Brigade told us they have rerouted 999 calls from Barnes to Richmond fire station instead of Hammersmith fire station, and data from their response time records show that there has been no increase in 999 fire brigade response times in the Barnes peninsula since the bridge closed,” says the organisation Possible (https://shorturl.at/06GrC). |