“Icy streets led to a wave of complaints”
“the Moguls instead of the sidewalk, and the grains of sand as far around as the small peas on top of the hard, blankslipade the ice. It is not easy to get around on the streets in the slipperiness, of all the complaints to judge.”
“the Worst is the level of dissatisfaction in the central and southern parts of the country. In the north, taking the inhabitants of the snow and slippery road conditions and with greater equanimity.”
“Snowfall over southern Sweden last week, when the temperature first rose rapidly and then drop a good bit below zero in just a few hours, was a real trial for the country’s snöröjare. It was not positive, according to all the complaining.”
“In Stockholm, sweden got over 1 600 complaints on the ice in during the last week. It can be compared with nyårsveckan, then it was just over 100 complaints on the slip.”
“Jack Schierbeck, a communicator on the traffic in the city of Stockholm, explains that the difficult courses in almost all the streets have been difficult to avoid. “
“In Västerås, there has also been substantial slippery after the snow and rain that froze in the last week. Västerås city has not the statistics completed over the complaints after the 10 January, but there have been angry letters to the editor in the local press.”
” We received the most complaints during the first day after the snowfall in the last week. A small rescue is that it was just slippery everywhere, even in the own staircase, so that the people understood that it was really slippery out there, ” says Sandra Johansson, vinteransvarig in Västerås.”
“Sopsaltning expensive but effective.”
“In Västerås, sweden, in the municipality of the 38-mile pedestrian and cycle paths and it takes a long time to clear and halkbekämpa them at a snowstorm. Right now, there is a try with the sopsaltning on walking and cycling routes that will be evaluated. According to the municipality, the method is effective, but expensive.”
“In Södertälje, complaints have vällt in, reports SVT Södertälje , approximately 200 notifications have come in the last time. Also in Linköping, sweden, it has been really content several times in the winter, ” says Carl Eriksson, flight operations engineer at trafikenheten in the municipality of Linköping.”
” We have had several such days.”
“Around 150 complaints have been on the ice,” he says.”
” We have ten miles of footpaths and cycle tracks which we sopsaltar. Linköping was the first with it, there are many municipalities that followed after, ” he says.”
“the house owners are responsible in Linköping”
“But along with the streets in Linköping is the home owners are responsible for snow removal and de-icing, just like in many other municipalities.”
” the Level is very different. Some go out as soon as it got a snowflake while others ignore it.”
“Carl Eriksson says that it is being discussed within the municipality of Linköping concerning the decentralized responsibility makes sense.”
“– But nor is it possible to get away from ice completely. We work with campaigns, that you should have halkriktiga shoes.”
“In the north is, however, dissatisfaction with the removal of the snow is not as great.”
” We are accustomed to dealing with winter. People have spikes. We have 50% less complaints this year than in the past. So far we have been out three times to clear the snow, and three times for slipping, ” says Anders Åberg, responsible for road holding in the Luleå municipality.”
“In Östersund also has the complaints were fewer this year than in the past,” says Tore Åberg, street and parkchef in the city of Östersund. Despite the fact that it also was properly content during the last week.”
“– We sandar, of course. People want us to sanda. But then sparkåkarna angry, ” he says.”
“He notes that östersundborna become more complainant in the recent years. In any case, when it comes to roads and highways.”
“– Younger complain more than the older. Those who is really old takes on broddarna, or stays inside.”
“the Country’s southern parts can get a lot of snow for the weekend, and temperatures may be around or just above zero. This means that it can be really slippery, especially in the south of sweden. The snow drags on Sunday, and the snow expected to fall all the way up to Dalarna on Tuesday.”
“the State vägforskningsinstitut, VTI, has of 2012 compared the costs of a number of municipalities for snow removal with the social costs of slipping of pedestrians. In most cases, not the cost of clearing snow on the walkways can be separated from the total cost for the removal of the snow.”
“Anyway, the result is clear:
“Swedish civil contingencies Agency, MSB, to estimate the cost of falls to between 22 and 25 billion per year. How many of these are the result of falls due to slipping, you don’t know exactly, but at least a third of them take place outdoors.”
“the Stockholm Region according to the recent slip made to around 200 persons per day are forced to seek care in Stockholm county on the basis of slips. The most common is the care for wrist fractures, damage to the shoulder or upper arm and fractures of the ankles.”
“Source: VTI, the Swedish contingencies agency, Stockholm Region”