It’s total chaos in the rail traffic in Stockholm and the rest of Sweden because of the snow; trains, buses and subways have been cancelled and delayed. I had plans for practise driving this forenoon but I had no choice but to return home to my boyfriend’s when the subway didn’t seem to come at all. The Swedish Rail service and the local transport never seem to be well prepared and always seem surprised when the winter comes. It’s not like we’re part of the northern Europe, absolutely not!
There has been an extreme winter this year, but you think that the responsible should be a lot better on making sure that the trains are on time and that the railroads are free of ice and snow. There’s no lack of resources – the government has put in money for restoring the tracks. In my view it’s a disaster when the local transport of Stockholm are suggesting that people should stay home from work because of the weather. It seems though that I can take advantage of the travel guarantee and take a taxi to my job!
Personally I’m longing for warmer weather and lesser snow, we have reached a point where the end of the continous snowfall and the decreasing degrees seem to be out of reach. There’s a major problem when people are struggling to find a way home from the central Stockholm or cannot get to work because of the traffic. This is the first winter since years that we have experienced a ‘full white winter’. On my way home from a night out yesterday my friend and I saw people slipping and falling on the crossing because of the stormy snowfall, I think it’s enough now!
