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    Berliner Gericht bestätigt Streusalzverbot trotz Hunderter Unfälle im Zusammenhang mit Eis

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    1. Protopalote on

      Saving the groundwater from salt by filling it with oil and coolant from hundreds of wrecked cars. Genius strategy.

    2. luismt2 on

      This feels like one of those cases where the policy goal makes sense, but the real-world tradeoffs weren’t fully thought through.

    3. Alisa606 on

      I’m sure there’s some countries that are much colder and snowier that these people could be sent to for a quick lesson on this. Be sure to encourage them to drive and walk on it

    4. soursop_magnolia on

      Broken hips are biodegradable. Road salt isn’t. It’s just simple math

    5. no_va_det_mye on

      I live at 69 degrees north and drive on snowy and icy conditions for 6 months of the year.

      I fucking hate road-salt. It provides a false sense of security and doesnt teach people to drive responsibly on roads that arent salted.

      And it makes cars dirty as fuck.

      And it attracts wildlife towards the road because for some reason they love licking the salt.

    6. OneSalientOversight on

      A longer term solution would be heated roads and footpaths.

      They have football stadiums that have heating under the grass, preventing frozen pitches.

      So the idea would be to have heating pads under the road to keep their surface temperatures above zero. Snow that accumulates on top eventually sloughs off into the gutters.

      Expensive and uses a lot of electricity? Yes. But probably worth it, especially in built up areas.

    7. HenryKrinkle on

      Note for those unaware: they upheld the ban of using salt *on pedestrian sidewalks*. The city can and does use salt on roads, but that extra meter on each side is *intolerable* even for two weeks during extreme conditions.

    8. lluciferusllamas on

      Germany hates itself.  WW2 was a long time ago guys.  It’s OK to become a fully functional nation again.  We believe in you. 

    10. thebenson on

      Are they also not allowed to use safer salt alternatives?

      Like beet juice, for example.

    11. Dapper_1534 on

      In Canada, we use gravel mixed with salt….it’s a small trade off for better safety… don’t see an issue there.

    15. HalcyoNighT on

      >which would have permitted private individuals to use agents to free pavements from black ice

      I had to double-check what country’s problems Im reading

    16. nonno7172 on

      When I lived there, urea was used to de-ice pavement. Maybe that was a regional thing?? Is it no longer used?

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