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Keith Dancey · February 6th 04, 10:55 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

In article , Jonathan Stott writes:
Keith Dancey wrote:

NO. It is true of their largest cities: nowhere near the peak traffic flows
of our largest cities.

Had they faced a blizzard conditions in the middle of their rush hour
causing trees to block roads and power failures knocking out traffic
lights, they would have ground to a halt, also.

True. But you miss my point about the traffic density of Scandinavian
cities - comparing the traffic of Stockholm and London is nonsensical
because London has 10 times the population of Stockholm.
Stockholm-Birmingham comparison is closer (Stockholm has a population of
about 750,000, while Birmingham's is about 1,000,000).

My original claim was that we have an order of magnitude greater peak
traffic flow than Scandinavia.

I do not think that is contradicted by comparing their largest city
with one of ours which is not our largest.

We have greater problems: I think the "road authorities" did everything
that was expected of them, and we still got stuck:-}

Cheers,

keith

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