>why dont you use sand A study of sand usage in the USA showed that sand still needed to be mixed with salt and other chemicals in order to melt the ice. The value of sand is when there is slush on a hill and some cars would spin on pure slush floating on top of ice, but with sand, they would be able to move up the hill. However, the situations where this occurs is limited. And the sand must be cleaned up afterwards by street sweeper machines.
The other part of the study damned the use of sand. It causes a lot of rutting wear to roadways. My entire county phased out sand quite a few years ago due to the road wear problem.
Jayden Edwards
I live in one of the richer parts of Alberta where people have way too much money. It's usually only your sidewalks on your property that get heated. The city's sidewalk still has to get shoveled.
Winter is good for you and winter sports are sick. Have fun not leaving your A/C'd basement fatass.
>living more than 200 miles from the glacier that feeds your water supply.
Salt is the least of your worries.
Jeremiah Price
ITT: people who never experienced black ice inb4 couldnt deal
Parker Bell
Northern Virginia salts its roads several times a year, many times if there is a lot of snow. Most cars I've seen that have been here their whole life are fine underneath.
Ian Hernandez
The rust belt has a lot of ground water near the surface causing heaves that wreck the roads.
Germany is probably different, OR their grading below the surface is spick and span due to being a civilized country for 1000 years vs americas "fuck it make it big, wide and we'll maintain it with the bare minimum" attitude
Jonathan Rodriguez
The USA just doesn't maintain infrastructure, at all. Just build and let it be. Germany is basically non-stop maintaining their roads and they have to. Last time I was there they had Belgium tier parts on their Autobahn.
Xavier Ross
Been there brother
Aaron Johnson
>destroys my car >causes forty miles of oversanded hazard zone >causes roads to be shut down for 2 days >it was used by an inexperienced driver who set it to a higher release setting, destroying 29 cars
idiocy, and fifteen injured, nine permanent injuries
Owen Ortiz
>it snows in their country
David Turner
Well to be fair America has a mind boggling amount of roadway to maintain and we pay little to no road tax so really we shouldn't complain.
