City has cold message for extreme winter weather: 'We don't have a solution'

City officials need to be frank with the public when extreme cold and humid conditions turn Edmonton roads into skating rinks.
That was one lesson learned from this month’s cold snap. As temperatures fell overnight, ice formed from water in the air, and the city’s new calcium chloride spray was powerless to melt it. Edmonton saw 191 collisions in nine hours.
Traditionally, city staff respond to bad weather by appearing on morning radio shows to tell the public that crews are working