The first rule of politics is to blame your enemies for anything bad that happens in the world. So when Interstate 95 was locked in a weather-related traffic jam for 15 hours, progressives were quick to blame it on newly elected governor Glenn Youngkin.
Photo by Virginia Department of Transportation.
Looks Youngkin failed his first test in Va, with traffic stopped for 10-12 hrs on 95 in Virginia. Failure for gov.
— Jennifer G (@JenniferinNC) January 4, 2022
“Looks [like] Youngkin failed his first test in Va,” writes one. “This is not a good start or look for Virginia’s Gov. Glenn Youngkin,” says another.
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Well, this is not a good start or look for Virginia's Gov. Glenn Youngkin. https://t.co/NEm5qg8zTO
— Stacey Ma Dukes Hopkins (@staceyhopkinsga) January 4, 2022
Certainly, the traffic could not have been the fault of Youngkin’s Democratic predecessors, who spent billions of dollars on transit projects while neglecting Virginia’s highway system (except where they could charge tolls to help pay for transit). It has to be Youngkin’s fault for not doing something about the roads during all the time he has been in the governor’s office so far.
What’s that you say? He isn’t in the governor’s office? He won’t be inaugurated until January 15? Well, it still has to be his fault somehow.
Exactly. Has nothing to do with it raining before the snow fell, making it so deicer couldn’t be applied.
Here I go again … The Ohio Turnpike (co-branded as US Interstate 80), funded by tolls, routinely has salt trucks spreading salt BEFORE snow or freezing rain start falling. In anticipation.
Snow & Ice Fact Sheet
https://www.ohioturnpike.org/docs/default-source/marcom/snow-ice-fact-sheet-2020-2021.pdf?sfvrsn=1705f4c4_2
The fact sheet says nothing about pretreatment.
The storm in Virginia started as rain, so pretreatment with brine-chemical solution wasn’t an option because it would have been washed it away.
Ted wrote, “The fact sheet says nothing about pretreatment.”
True. But I’ve seen it in action.
The following is from …
MINUTES OF THE 686th MEETING OF THE OHIO TURNPIKE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION
JUNE 21, 2021
Representative Ghanbari:
Mr. Chairman, I know ODOT also does some different types of application for pretreating of the roadways. Does the Turnpike do something similar? Is this
part of that process that ODOT uses as far as the liquid pretreatment?
Deputy Chief Engineer:
Mr. Chairman and Representative Ghanbari, we do use a couple of other chemicals in our snow and ice storm fighting technique. This contract is strictly for rock salt. In the past, we have partnered with ODOT where they take the rock and produce a brine out of it, we have done that out of the Fulton County facility. We also purchase other liquid deicing and anti-icing materials. One of the processes we use is a “pre-wet system,” that we mount on our snow and ice trucks where is shoots a pre-determined amount of liquid on the salt. What that does is help to reduce the bounce and scatter of the salt deployed onto the road and it also allows the salt to work at a lower temperature.
https://bit.ly/3HIS3Zc
Oh no. Inclement weather made our traffic bad….police cars are largely SUV now….. by contrast. Why not put plies on em and clear the highways before they start patrols.
Virginia doesn’t get enough snow to have plows to deal with the once-in-3-years snowfall. But they could communicate much better and deal with the MOST important highway in the state in less than 36 hours.
Instead of complaining about the government neglecting highway maintenance, maybe drivers should pay for the roads with their own money, instead of asking the rest of us to subsidize their preferred mode of transit.
Janehavisham: “maybe drivers should pay for the roads with their own money”
They do out, at least state highways. Only city streets and county roads are subsidized, and those subsidies are small, about a penny per passenger mile.
Hard to blame the new guy since he hasn’t been sworn in yet. To the extent a governor is to blame, this is on Northam.
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instead of asking the rest of us to subsidize their preferred mode of transi
” ~JH
If you have or may in the future need or consume the following, you’ll need roads. Your “the rest of us” are 3 geriatrics and thats about it.
a) fire
b) police
c) ambulance
d) garbage
e) school
f) amazon deliveries
g ) door dash / uber eats / food delivery
h) instacart / whole foods / grocery deliveries
i) drinking water, waste water + sewer
j) etc, etc, etc
z) drive a car
Amtrak Passengers Stuck On Trains For Over 30 Hours By Snowstorm
Downed trees in Virginia led to chaos for customers on Amtrak trains
The same snowstorm that halted highway traffic across Virginia earlier this week also caused lengthy delays on Amtrak. Several Amtrak trains were stopped in Virginia due to track conditions. Operational problems were compounded by poor customer service and communication aboard trains and with call centers. The situation was dire enough to garner criticism from Virginia’s delegation to the U.S. Senate.
https://jalopnik.com/amtrak-passengers-stuck-on-trains-for-over-30-hours-by-1848327577