Due to the economy, our city isn't salting the roads

Haven't heard anything yet, but if salt is too expensive to help people who might get killed in an icy storm then they are really getting cheap..I mean what are our taxes going for??

I'm very surprised to hear that road salting is something a responsible council would cut back on. I'm also surprised to hear that the price of road salt has risen so dramatically. Any idea why that would be? Around here they don't salt / grit roads full stop, so there's not allot of cutting back they can do! It snowed a couple of weeks go, which is pretty unusual. We were stuck in as the little car refused to start in the cold, and the bus just wouldn't get up the hill away from the house without sliding back home.

Our town is doing the same thing. It makes it quite slippery around here. I hope they really use it if it gets real bad or we will all be in trouble.

Our area is actually doing the same thing. They are actually cutting back on salting the main roads and only salting one part of highway that cuts up into the mountains and comes down. They're not too interested in salting main roads either because of economy. So we either just have to use our discretion and stay off the roads or else.

We use sand on our roads and it is really bad on the side roads even when we do have the money. True the main roads get sanded, but I find I have to walk on people's lawns or hold onto cars parked on the streets to get to the main street and I wear good boots, but somehow the boots that work at minus 20 are not that good when it is around freezing. There are such a things as false economies or do they expect that the doctors will fix up those broken bones and ankles for free?

We don't have that problem because we don't even live in an area that snows or sleets, but I know how reckless people can be because I once lived in Iowa where we had to deal with a lot of careless drivers, but then they were putting salt down, but that still didn't stop the reckless drivers from driving like a bat out of hell. Now I don't have to deal with that anymore. Thank goodness.

Our town has a salting truck, and for several years now they have only salted the main roads. I think it's sad, because my father who picks me to and from work has to take a massive detour just because the council won't salt the route he drives because it isn't a main road. Typical government policy - tax you to the hilt, but then refuse to spend the money on the welfare of the people they took it from.

That's getting pretty bad when they can't afford salt. That's gonna endanger a lot of people.