seattletimes.nwsource.com - 12/31/2008
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Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announces the city will reverse course, and use road salt to melt ice in future storms. The city also will consider buying more snow-removal equipment.
faustasblog.com - 12/29/2008
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faustasblog.com —
Seattle refuses to use salt; roads “snow packed”
by design “If we were using salt, you’d see...
patches of bare road because salt is very effective,” Wiggins said. “We decided not to utilize salt because it’s not a healthy addition to Puget Sound.” Puget ...
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blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 1/5/2009
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 12/24/2008
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seattlepi.nwsource.com —
(Editor's Note: This story has been changed since
it was first published. Andy Ryan is a spokesman...
for Seattle Public Utilities, not the Department of Transportation.) Workers have dropped 8,500 tons of sand on city streets to try to make roads more ...
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When it's time to clear roadways, Seattle holds the salt
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Salty
HorsesAss.Org —
... Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced today that the city has reversed its policy against using road salt to combat ice and snow. Sorta. ...
Seattle Mayor: Hey, You Know What? Maybe Next Time It Snows We'll Use Salt
Ace of Spades HQ —
Seattle Mayor: Hey, You Know What? Maybe Next Time It Snows We'll Use Salt Apparently Puget Sound isn't that sensitive to salt after all. Or at least it's not as sensitive as thousands of downtown retailers whose stores were made inaccessible by this absurd policy, nor as sensitive to hundreds of people who crashed their cars driving on the packed snow the roads were deliberately turned into. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced this morning that the city will reverse its decade-old policy and use road salt to melt ice in future storms. The mayor set certain ...
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