Salty roads or lack there of in Canadaland.

[ck80]

Manitoba (near Winnipeg at least) uses sugar beet juice on the roads according to my FIL who drove semi there

I don't know your experiences up north, but, they started using that stuff in Vermont, at least as of a few years back when last I was there.

It was nasty on cars, stuck to everything and pita to get off.

 

[Jeff Blagden]

Yeah the beet juice is nasty to clean then they tried pickle brine

 

[81cutlass]

My FIL said he would drive up I29 through grand forks and see maybe 1 car in the ditch. Go through customs and over the boarder and there would be 5 cars in the ditch right away for the first few miles. He always complained about Manitoba roads.

 

[Jeff Blagden]

I 29 I take it when I drive to kansas and it is 10 times better than any highway in Manitoba

 

[motorheadmike]

This scene reminds me of Manitoba:

Horrible enough just to visit, much less live in.

 

[Jeff Blagden]

Nothing to see here

 

[olds307 and 403]

We have minimal salt here in the Prairies compared to Ontario and East, yikes for their cars, very bad. It is still enough to rot out a G body though🙁.

 

[PBGBodyFan]

A lot of rural MN and the Dakotas don't use salt either. It's too cold for much of the winter for salt to work and people have 4wd, know how to drive, or just have a buddy to pull them out of the ditch when they get stuck because running into other people isn't as big of a deal when there is no other traffic. Honestly MT, western ND or SD are great places for project cars because its dry and cool.

Manitoba (near Winnipeg at least) uses sugar beet juice on the roads according to my FIL who drove semi there

The municipality I work for uses a beet juice/brine to pre-treat the roads and many others in the area here do the same. It's not strong or effective enough to really do much with actual snow or ice though. Our DPW Superintedent is a car guy and I tell him to be part of the solution, not problem, when it comes to road salt 😀.

Mild stretch of weather makes me want to bring the wagon home from my mom's house where it's parked for winter, but we haven't really had much if any rain so the roads are dry with almost all snow melted except big piles from plowing, but too much salt in the roads and it is nice having my TBSS in the garage, not having to scrape off frost some mornings. I can wait a week or two.

 

[64nailhead]

This scene reminds me of Manitoba:



Horrible enough just to visit, much less live in.

Never been there, but I'll give a one up on in NY in the statistic of population density :
Manitoba 2.2 people per square kilometer
New York State 163.1 people per square kilometer.

I'd prefer to 1/80th of the cars on the road daily. And I'll take shitty a road that I'm on by myself. I can only imagine the crime statistical comparisons.

 

[motorheadmike]

Never been there, but I'll give a one up on in NY in the statistic of population density :
Manitoba 2.2 people per square kilometer
New York State 163.1 people per square kilometer.

I'd prefer to 1/80th of the cars on the road daily. And I'll take shitty a road that I'm on by myself. I can only imagine the crime statistical comparisons.

But, my in-laws live in Winterpeg, Manitoblah.

Actually they are pretty cool...