Here is the scene yesterday on the Ring Road in Regina. Note the sign caption and the fact that people seem to be ignoring the warning. We were headed out of town at 9 am and saw the sign and at least 6 cars in the ditch, some with collision damage. This portion of road is notorius for being slippery in this kind of weather, but at 9 am there wasn’t much caution being exercised by drivers and there didn’t seem to be any sand or salt put on the road by the highways department. Coming back at 12:30 pm the scene was the same. The earlier cars had been towed away with a couple of new ones taking their place. There was still no sand or salt on the road.
While people are idiots and don’t seem to be able to slow down when conitions require it, the city and highways department seem to be dropping the ball here. This portion of the Ring Road is maybe 5 miles long and carries most of the Highway 1 traffic through town. How hard can it be to keep the ice off it in the first place? Just asking…
