I think it is time to take a new approach to getting people to drive properly. From now on we should advise everyone to drive at twice the speed required for road conditions , and hand out fines to those who are driving to the road conditions. It seems everyone wants to play a game out there by doing what they are not supposed to. Maybe this is the way to get people to slow down.$wheel drive and/or snow tires do not mean you can drive faster, they just allow you to drive safer at proper speeds.

Hey Harley, twice the speed would, through attrition, take care of the fools, no need to go further and fine anyone else. The smart ones still on the road, dummies in the ditch. Tow trucks not allowed to pull them out till spring.............

I like that , better in the ditch than on the roads creating chaos for everyone else.

Beginning to bug me how I can't drive 10 or 15 km./h under the posted limit on the highway in conditions such as those we had today, without a lot of impatient drivers behind me following too close and passing at the first opportunity, safe or not.
I am talking about an ice covered highway here, and near white out conditions at times, but some folks seem to think that it is okay to travel at summertime speeds.
I could drive fast too, I have a 4wd pickup, with ice tires and plenty of ballast in the box, but I understand that quick stops and sudden manouevres are out of the question when the road is covered in ice. It appears that at least half of the clowns at the wheel do not understand these basic tenants of winter driving (drive slower)
There's my friday free for all rant, a day early, but still free, for all.
metalman.