Salt Institute Logo

Salt & Winter Roadway Safety: For Highway Users

We build highways to deliver transportation service. In the winter that often means applying salt to roadways in snow and ice events.

« Snow doubt it's coming | Main | A Dome is a Dome? »

Snowstorms paralyze Colorado

snowstorm.jpg
Winter has arrived. Keeping roads open and safe is a priority for roadway agencies and the public gets early season reminders of just how important winter maintenance really is. Yesterday, a major snowstorm blocked I-70 west of Denver, CO, a major freight route through the Rockies.

Posted by Dick Hanneman on November 15, 2006 05:07 PM | Permalink

Recent Posts

  • And who said their was no "good news"?
  • New TRB how-to guide to improve travel time reliability
  • Congratulations, Virginia DOT
  • Climate change to impact transportation, salt usage
  • Traffic safety AND mobility: dual imperatives, not trade-offs
  • Focus transportation funding on priority projects
  • Workplace productivity demands effective winter roadway maintenance
  • Signaling the end of China's snowstorm emergency
  • Ohio city runs out of salt, closes roads (since reopened)
  • Salt supplies Winter Maintenance podcast
Subscribe to this blog's feed
[What is this?]

Links

  • 30.html

Archives

  • August 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • February 2006

Search



[About Salt Institute] [About salt] [About the salt industry] [News] [SI Member Business (password required)] [E-Mail Salt Institute]
Search web site: