Well perhaps not yet for this particular incident, but I was speaking generally.
But the blame for cancelling services to try and prevent incidents like this occurring all over areas affected by the weather has be from many quarters, - mostly uninformed attention-seeking self-publicists, but there are some from posters here who should know better.
To be fair it was on the front of the Metro at the start of the week. The main story. About a TOC cancelling services before any snow has fallen. And now we see it was justified.
With today's compensation culture there is always a hunt for blame. Someone trips on an uneven curb stone in a country village and it's the council's fault. Not everything can be perfect or run perfectly and nobody can expect it to.
There was a clip played on BBC news yesterday throughout the day of a car going very slowly but that was skidding and sliding into the other side of the road on some trunk road. It came to a stop on the wrong side and there's a bus seen coming towards it looks like it can't brake and suddenly at the last minute or slides past to avoid the car narrowly.
Made me wonder in a situation like that if there was an accident, would there be a hunt for blame or would it simply be put down to the weather? I mean it's not dangerous driving or without due care and attention as as long as you are giving it fill attention what else can you do? And of the road is open surely that means the authorities deem it to be safe to attempt it?
If a road were not gritted and someone had an accident I wonder whether the council would take the rap.