From Toronto streets. We had our first rainstorm today, not much of one though. However, Sat. looks like a possible return to snow, and I'm hoping not much, not enough for them to bring out the frigging salt trucks again.
-Rich
Bring on the summer so I can work on my car in my Garage all day long,, Great!!!!! Soon she'll be back on the road!!!!
We've had a couple of good days of rain and it looks like a few more in the forecast. I don't know what it's like up north where people are more accustomed to driving in the snow; but here in MD, they use WAY too much salt.
They seem incapable of developing trucks that are little more than oversized garden fertilizer sprinklers. If they stop in one place, you end up with a pile of salt. They should be have computer-controlled distribution that would be programmed to distribute the salt evenly and determined by the conditions they expect.
-Rich
Great idea...but that will never happen because our govt is too cheap to pay the cost. Same reason they do not use enviroment friendly alternatives to salt. To cheap to pay for it. They don't even fix our roads any more here in Toronto. Look how many pot holes there are! They're everywhere and I'm constantly swerving to avoid them. Our roads are a joke compared to the roads in the southern U.S. I know that our climate creates bad road conditions, but this is too much.
I've seen the studies on this. Climate is one thing, but the biggest destroyer of roads are large, heavy vehicles. The Toronto corridor is so heavily travelled by them it's no wonder the roads suck. The other problem is the technology. European roads last far longer than ours. The construction techniques are different. So why haven't they adopted those techniques here? Because of the political influence of the huge contracting firms here. They don't want roads that last, they want to be back on them every six months, FOR six months fixing them. Lastly, the exhorbitant gasoline taxes we pay, that used to go to fixing roads are now being diverted "elsewhere." Meanwhile, our Federal government sits on a $5 billion+ surplus every year, thinking up ways to blow the money to make sure votes keep coming in to Liberal party in Canada. Oh yeah; I just heard; 4" of snow due on Saturday!
-Rich
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