jont wrote:Saw this on The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/13/sticky_grit/ - bit random, even for them!), but thought some of the bikers on here might be interested.
"UK bikers have launched an online petition aimed at getting the government to rethink its "sticky grit" de-icing strategy - the bikers' petition states: "It seems that once the cold snap is over the resulting mollases based product causes a slippery sheen to form on the road surface."
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/slippyroads/
Jon
TripleS wrote:jont wrote:Saw this on The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/13/sticky_grit/ - bit random, even for them!), but thought some of the bikers on here might be interested.
"UK bikers have launched an online petition aimed at getting the government to rethink its "sticky grit" de-icing strategy - the bikers' petition states: "It seems that once the cold snap is over the resulting mollases based product causes a slippery sheen to form on the road surface."
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/slippyroads/
Jon
Perhaps this relates to what I said recently about a road that looked quite dry but felt surprisingly slippery. This was a road that had obviously been salted some days earlier, but had dried out and merely looked unusually white.
I had assumed that anti-icing treatment of roads involved applying a mixture of rock salt and some grit, but maybe there's more to it than that now.
Best wishes all,
Dave.
BillZZR600 wrote:TripleS wrote:I had assumed that anti-icing treatment of roads involved applying a mixture of rock salt and some grit, but maybe there's more to it than that now.
There would certainly seem so. Indeed there is a multiple hazzard involved with some of the new mixtures.
There are Anecdotal reports of sheep and cattle in unfenced areas (grampian region amongst others) wandering onto the roads to lick the mixture from the tarmac as it is being laid, and indeed lining up at the sides of the roads when they "sense" the aproach of the gritters.
BillZZR600 wrote:There are Anecdotal reports of sheep and cattle in unfenced areas (grampian region amongst others) wandering onto the roads to lick the mixture from the tarmac as it is being laid, and indeed lining up at the sides of the roads when they "sense" the aproach of the gritters.
BillZZR600 wrote:I had assumed that anti-icing treatment of roads involved applying a mixture of rock salt and some grit, but maybe there's more to it than that now.
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