Road Salt!

[cruiserpilot]

Rant coming up. WTF is it with this sheeeiit! They went down our road today pouring this crap all over! There is no way we're gonna get any ice, it hasn't been below freezing for a week, not gonna happen for at least a week. Tomorrow I blast the maintenance company. I'm gonna have a supervisor come over to my house.
2 weeks ago I had to go Canim Lake to pick up a dog. At noon through Boston Bar, the highway was totally bare and dry. As I come up to a tunnel, I meet a salt truck coming the other way. Laying literally hundreds of gallons, the road was as wet as had it rained! At least 10 hrs until it could possibly have any forming icing on the road.
I've had enough, waste of money! Not to mention environment damage. I used more window cleaner on that trip than I did on the entire last trip to Calgary.
Ridiculous!

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

I hear yah. They dump salt brine on the roads in Victoria WAY more than they need to. Often when it's totally dry out for days in a row and now chance of ice forming. Like you say, a total waste of money, and hard on the environment. Not only that, but as a vintage cruiser owner, salt is the worst enemy. I HATE it. I try not to drive much when the brine is on the road, and I also try to rinse my truck underneath regularly, but I know that there is only so much I can do.

Good on yah for talking to the supervisor about it. I look forward to hearing how it goes.

 

[chet]

the brine has to be put down before it ices and when its dry it works better and lasts longer. it stops the moisture from getting in the cracks and freezing. as for why they do it when there is no chance of freezing... they get paid more when they are salting or brining then when they are just driving around.

 

[45Kevin]

We have had a week of plus temps here but the melt during the day from solar radiation still freezes every night because the ground is still at below freezing temps.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Yeah, but I'm talking here, and on the lower value roads with no coverage, bare and dry, no icing. Out here, the ground went above freezing a while ago.