Keith Dancey wrote:

I am surprised at this claim. I don't think any road authority failed us.

Birmingham City Council are conducting an inquiry into who's fault the
problems were. I believe no one other than the people who can't drive in
snow and ice are to blame.

The forecast was acted upon and my experience is that roads were salted
and gritted *ad nauseum* pior to the blizzard. No amount of salt or grit
could possibly have prevented the poor driving conditions which resulted
during and immediately after the blizzard. The worst situations occurred
because of the sheer weight of traffic (Scandinavia doesn't have to deal
with one tenth of our peak traffic flows.)

While that's true in the rural areas of Scandinavia, around cities such
as Oslo and Stockholm traffic is just as heavy as in comparably sized
cities here.

Jonathan