How Canada’s addiction to road salt is ruining everything

[Anonymous]

I hate the road salt!



I try to spray off under my Jeep the best I can after a few days, but this liquid stuff they using gets everywhere.



It also makes it harder to see out of your windows when it gets all over it.



I was just wondering last week, what were the environmental repercussions from this stuff, the runoff. Didnt think about the pipes and stuff.

We used to use mostly sand and gravel in Southern Alberta, but now we use more salt.

 

[Bricktop]

No salt on our roads.



Just roos.



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[Anonymous]

Count yourself lucky you don't have salt wrecking your vehicles.

[Anonymous]

No salt on our roads.



Just roos.



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I imagine that would have a lot of poisonous snakes.

[Angry White Male]

You're lucky if salt is all they spread.  I'm certain they spray Magnesium Chloride on the roads here, and if you want corrosive, this shit is the actual worst...  It will actually corrode stainless steel with relative ease, as well as aluminum, steel, and even rubber...

[Bricktop]

Count yourself lucky you don't have salt wrecking your vehicles.

Hitting a roo doesn't do them a lot of good.

[Anonymous]

Count yourself lucky you don't have salt wrecking your vehicles.

Hitting a roo doesn't do them a lot of good.

People living in rural parts of my  province will probably hit a deer in their lifetimes..



If you want to look at the bright side, it's better than hitting a moose.

[Blazor]

You're lucky if salt is all they spread.  I'm certain they spray Magnesium Chloride on the roads here, and if you want corrosive, this shit is the actual worst...  It will actually corrode stainless steel with relative ease, as well as aluminum, steel, and even rubber...

I believe thats the "spray" they are using here now over the last several years, use to be salt. Shit gets into everything.

[Anonymous]

Calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are used here when it's really cold.

[Anonymous]

Calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are used here when it's really cold.

I just looked up calcium chloride....it has a lot of uses other than de-icing roads.

[Bricktop]

They were planning to do a series of "Ice Road Truckers" here in Australia.



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They got tired of waiting.

[Odinson]

I hate that show..



Everything is blown out of proportion.. American style..





Its really dangerous to drive a truck..



Your truck might get abducted by aliens if you are not careful.

[Anonymous]

I hate that show..



Everything is blown out of proportion.. American style..





Its really dangerous to drive a truck..



Your truck might get abducted by aliens if you are not careful.

No more so than driving a two mile long train carrying enough dangerous goods for a few Hiroshimas.

[Angry White Male]

I believe thats the "spray" they are using here now over the last several years, use to be salt. Shit gets into everything.

It's just brutal shit.  It works well to keep roads de-iced, but it corrodes everything much worse than regular rock salt.



I notice that shit will even eat my wiper blades enough in one winter season, that they'll start streaking.  Never had that problem when they just used normal salt!

[Blazor]

No more so than driving a two mile long train carrying enough dangerous goods for a few Hiroshimas.

I just watched a good Asian movie called Train to Busan. Was crazy, zombies started, one wound up on the train and went from there.