Black Ice

I went for a run this morning, quite slowly, as the pavements were icy.  I decided to walk across one of the side-roads, and discovered my feet slipping around on the wet-looking stuff in the middle.  Yes, this morning, everything that looks like water is in fact ice.  And I saw two cycle accidents in the half hour that I was out.  One woman tried to turn left in front of me and went straight over.  Not hurt, fortunately, and the car that was heading towards her stopped until we had picked her up and got her stuff out of the road.  She was pretty shaken up though.  So what happened to the Council's road gritting programme?