Traffic resumes on western expressway after snow disruption

Considering the high cost to use the highways in Japan,it is pretty shocking that the number of available snowploughs is woefully inadequate

Needed chains on the tires where I lived.

I avoid Winter travel as much as possible to snowy places.

I don't understand why the affected sections of expressways weren't closed, and traffic forced to exit, before it got that bad. Same goes for JR, and the lines they stopped mid-storm, trapping people on trains for hours.

Those agencies knew about the impending weather for days beforehand. This nonsense could have been avoided.