Railtrack has set up a lightning task force to find ways of preventing power surges caused by strikes to overhead wires and conductor rails, which bring the trains to a halt. The Highways Agency says it does not yet know what measures it will take to protect traffic on Britain's roads. The warmer weather will disrupt transport systems throughout the world. In the snow belt of the US and in Russia, says Astbury, the temperature now stays below freezing from November to March. But warmer weather will melt and freeze the snow several times during the winter, replacing compacted snow with hazardous black ice.
Transport is one of the key sources of the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the world.
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