As the UK faces its hottest ever recorded day, and people are being advised not to travel, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has conceded the UK’s transport network cannot cope with the extreme heat.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast he told people to “apply common sense” and “depending on the nature of your journey and reason for it you might want to consider rearranging your day around it”. He added: “We’ve seen a considerable amount of travel disruption, we’re probably going to see the hottest day ever in the UK recorded today and infrastructure, much of it built in Victorian times, just wasn’t built to withstand this type of temperature.
"It will be many years before we can replace infrastructure with the kind of infrastructure that could, because the temperatures are so extreme. Asked if the transport system can cope with the weather, he said: “The simple answer at the moment is no."
