Aside from wooden snow fences, why doesn’t WY build snow barriers right next to I-80?

My opinion, winter roads were better before everyone started using liquid deicer. Now they slop that down and what would normally be a cold road that snow would blow over now has something on it that makes the snow stick. Used to have good, cold snowpack that you could run down at highway speed but now everyone thinks they need to see pavement and it ends up being a slick mess.

 

Chicago likes to salt everything, the beezjus out of the tristate in a inch of snow.

Sun sets, it turns into a few inches of spikey ice. Tears into the tires and everything.

Maryland found popcorn mix. Presto monsoon rains no more hydroplaning at 70 or splashing at 45.

In a month the first popcorn pavements failed utterly. They had to take it to bare dirt and rebuild it all over again.

 

I doubt the decision was from a single accident. More likely that was the final straw to push it through.

 

It’s all going to be over with in 12 years. Why waste the money?

 

Run those numbers for guys that don't pull a van/reefer. A 16 foot square crate in that wind and you are lucky to see 4 mpg.
I hate the gallon based taxes. They need to be mileage based.

 

More like 18 months. Jersey just docked a sick cruise ship with thousands this morning. CDC met the ship dockside in real time. Likely quarantine all of them for two weeks. We are all to be dead in 18 months *Piff poff.. /slight satire..

 

What's in 12 years?

 

I keep hearing ultimate death of the earth and its inhabitants due to unlivable heat caused by the evil diesel engines. Lol!

 

I agree, sanded roads are the best roads to run on in the winter.