2010/1/7 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > What about chains?
You are entirely correct. Chains are a much overlooked aid. I have a set in the back of the car all winter, and usually have to mount them at least once every season. My father tells me that in the fifties they used to mount chains permanently on the wheels for the winter. A practice that was replaced by studded tyres, eventually. :-) The worst accidents seems to happen with hard-pressed long-haul transport vehicles. Those poor people are on inhuman time schedules, drive poorly equipped trucks, and in some cases have little experience. Especially the ones coming from around the Mediterranean or the Eastern Europe countries. I'm a bit puzzled by that since they have snowy conditions in all the mountaineous regions of Southern Europe too... -But anyway, I don't envy them. Neither their job nor their accidents. I remember about a decade ago the authorities said their goal was to have about 80% of the cars drive on non-studded tyres. I think they recognised already then that some mashing up of the ice surface was necessary. I also recall there was a "gap year" in the fee regime last time the roads got too polished. :-) The fees apply only to cities, btw, not the country as a whole. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
