The driving conditions on Saturday on the Hart where absolutely atrocious. At 2:30 pm the highway was still nothing but stretches of patches of lumpy ice, with not a grain of sand on the highway and no graders to scrape some of the bigger lumps down closer to the pavement.

Even at 11:00pm that same night nothing had changed. I kept as far to the right at a reduced speed as I could while rattling along on the slippery bumps.

In the left hand lane faster drivers were passing and barely being able to keep their vehicles in their proper lane, fishtailing and drifting all over the place!

I had to get back home somehow, but I thought that it was extremely unsafe to be out on the
Hart Highway, virtually gambling on making it or not.

Perhaps some city staff and YRB staff need to be sent to some foreign country to observe and learn how to cope with a major snowfall without endangering the lives of drivers for far too many hours!

How did we manage to do these things so much better in the past???

Diplomat...It's called low bidder and privitization. How can the low bidder make money idf they have to maintain the roads. I believe they do the best thay can but a little more effort wouldn't hurt.

In the old days WE PLOWED..Did not pour down salt. And pray. Remember Skidder Plows??? A few years ago 3 abreast, When WE went to work roads were clean.

Don: "In the old days WE PLOWED..Did not pour down salt. And pray. Remember Skidder Plows??? A few years ago 3 abreast, When WE went to work roads were clean."

Precisely. The biggest ice lumps need to be scraped closer to the pavement with a blade that has teeth! Just bouncing along at 70 kph with a sandtruck that has a mickey mouse little blade underneath doesn't do a thing to
the road!

Common sense!

I feel sorry for the people that get hurt in accidents.

By the way:

Common sense is not a very common commodity!