To the Brain Trust at the NS Dept of Transportation, thanks for deciding to use less salt on our roads. (Note, Our roads, not Your roads.)
The snowfall of November 23 gave us all a taste of your Low Salt Menu… more accidents, roads that are rutted with packed ice and battered suspensions for everyone!
The lost productivity from people staying home and missing work… not to mention the cost of looking after the extra accident injuries… from your latest “savings plan’ will cost our pathetic little feudal economy far more than the salt you are “saving”.
What a bunch of saltards. —TOSS: Tired of Oldboy Stupidity, Seriously
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2011.
You forgot to mention the 50 or so cars towed later in the day because they were stuck..at $227.00 a pop !Or all the revenue generated by ticketing stuck motorists.
What your insurance rate goes to from getting in an accident…or what you would be out of pocket, if you fix it yourself, so your rates don’t go up.
You know, with costs like that snow tires are looking like a better deal all the time
I saw some people this morning slipping on sidewalks… icy as a mother fucker….
and had to dig my plowed in car last night with my friggin’ snow brush.
NOT a happy camper.
I need to find another indoor parking lot….. those were the days,
My car was plowed in because I take the bus to work and they plowed the parking lot during the day. Happens every fuckin time… grrr.
I’m NOT like those snowtards on tower road who just didn’t give a fuck.
seriously.. the whole road was lined with plowed in cars parked on the street.
oldboy stupidity?
Back in the day the roads were salted enough. They don’t salt’em like they used to.
I thought I saw you driving around my neck of the woods last night, z3. Now my suspicions have been confirmed.
There are no cost savings when safety is involved.
I saw the aftermath of 4 nasty accidents on the way in after it had been snowing for only about half an hour.
The 103 looked completely dry but with just some swirling flurries hovering over the road but OH MY! They were going over the embankments like rats off a sinking ship!
I have my snow tires on and was driving cautiously and I still slithered.
Meanwhile – over at the salt station where they’re WEIGHING THE SALT TRUCKS – that weren’t out salting yet…
thanks for getting rid of the scary head, love the nocturnal bandit
: )
OB, I had no problem with the roads. It took a little longer to get home, but it wasn’t deadly treacherous. The people in the accidents likely never had winter tires, so I hope they enjoy next’s year insurance premium increases.
As for the salt, if fat people would stop stealing it for on their fries, there would be more for the roads.
All you poor ba’tards in Halisux that have to shovel your sidewalks in a certain time line after it snows.
Do you also have to salt said sidewalks ?
Or could you simply shovel & then water them , creating a lovely skating surface ~;)
it’s melting very quickly, i can ride again, safely