Fresh snowfall overnight on Monday lead to more travel disruption across Merseyside on Tuesday morning. Liverpool's John Lennon Airport closed its runway for several hours. We've been on the streets of Liverpool to find out how it's affected you.
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00:00Fresh snowfall overnight on Monday led to more travel disruption across Merseyside on Tuesday.
00:05The blanket of snow caused schools to shut, roads to close, travel chaos on the public transport
00:10network and bin collections to be suspended in places. We've been on the streets of Liverpool
00:15to find out how it's been affecting you. Yeah hey I'm from LA so I'm loving it obviously we
00:21don't really get snow super close to Los Angeles you have to drive at least over an hour almost
00:26two hours to get to the snow so I loved it I went outside last night I like one in the morning to
00:31enjoy the snowfall while it was fresh so it's been a great time I got to use all my heavy coats.
00:35Bad, very bad. Has it affected you getting around? Well it does doesn't it, it's slippy isn't it.
00:44The way it is they don't work with salt do they? They don't work at all with salt. So far I've
00:50managed not to slip so that's good I love this weather though I love British weather I love the
00:54fact it changes all the time so I'm more of a winter girl and I am a summer girl so I love it.
00:59Well it is January and it is the sort of weather we're supposed to have but what you've got to
01:04remember it's cold weather it's alright for those of us who have homes who have things to go to
01:08however there's a lot of people which we go around feeding the homeless people who have nowhere to go
01:14we have nowhere to go they have no warmth do you know have have no stability and you've got to
01:19think about them what they're going through at this time of year. It's okay yeah it's alright not too bad.
01:26No haven't slipped yeah I guess maybe the bricks of the the flooring has been good I've just been
01:32wearing my regular shoes I didn't have to wear like snow boots or anything yeah it's been a good
01:35time. Liverpool's John Lennon Airport closed its runway for several hours on Tuesday morning even
01:40though the runway reopened at 1030 a.m. passengers were warned that many flights were subject to delay
01:45and were advised to check with their airline for the latest information regarding particular
01:50flights a spokesperson also warned of travel disruption on the roads advising passengers
01:55to allow plenty of time to travel to the airport.