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It's freezing rain, thawing, freezing on the highway in northern Ontario ... stay at home!
(lemmy.ca)
The highways are literal ice, either thawing, freezing or going to become ice later tonight and people all over facebook, messenger, whatsapp, whatever are all messaging each other and me and my family asking what the highways are like today and if they can safely go out. People are dying on the highways this week all over the north. Stay at home.
The safest thing to do is just don't go on the highway when it is raining in December in northern Ontario!!!
This is part of the problems that come with exclusively designing an entire country to only be accessible by cars. Trams and trains don't struggle nearly as much in icy conditions.
I keep joking with my friends that we in Canada should build a single purpose road that should only be used by transport vehicles .... and to save time and energy, since it is all one road with no small passenger vehicles, we could string together long lines of these trucks together .... and to save even more time and increase efficiency, we could get rid of excess motorized trucks and just tie all these trailers to one massive engine to pull a hundred trailers at a time .... and to save even more time, we could build bigger, heavier trailers to carry more material at a time ... and since the engine and trailers are so heavy, we could build a more reinforced road .. maybe even make it out of steel
But all that seems to be far too controversial to be possible.