Nah, that would just give them a false sense of security and they'd drive way too fast for conditions.

The easier it is to go fast, the faster you're able to go. Right? ;)

Following that line of "reasoning".....
If they drive fast, they are on the roads, and a threat to others, for less time. So, lets encourage them to drive fast---its their civic duty.
:D

Clearly I did not think that all the way through. :D

I see dozens every time I drop one of my kids off at school in the morning.
Not sure how close you have to live to be a walker, but they most certainly still exist.

Not typically, and I'm not sure if you are ever allowed to use chains in CT, but we have had a few big storms in recent years that if you had to be out, you just weren't going to get where you were going in an unladen 2wd pick up.
Couple years back, I pushed one with my plow for 4 miles to get the moron off the roads I commute on. Not sure what his bumper looked like after such a push, and didn't care either.

You could have ended the second comment after the fifth word.....;)

Here they typically qualify for a bus if the student lives 1+ miles away from elementary school, 1.5+ from middle school and 2+ miles away from high school.

We've got a sizable amount of walkers as well. My younger two are fair weather walkers. The older two's situations are often complicated by practice schedules. If it was up to me, they'd all be foul weather walkers as well.

Riding your bike or walking meant freedom to go to a friend's after school. Mom was NOT coming to pick you up from Jim's house at 6:00 when you could have taken the bus.

One of my former reps lives in VT and after that massive flooding/washout a few years ago, they were walking groups of kids to school since the roads were unpassable. It was a 5 mile walk over a big hill. He told his kids that they'd be able to pass that story down to their kids/grandkids when they complained about having it rough. :)

The town I grew up in NJ doesn't offer busing. Period, end of story. Middle school and HS are both roughly in the center of town, so max walking distance is about two miles from any point in town. There are 5 or 6 elementary schools distributed around the town, so one will always be walking distance.

You see kids 9 or 10 walking to school -- by the time they reached middle school, everyone walked or biked.

Except for the other 100 thousand cars clogging the road, and a layer of ice, you can go as fast as you want...

I know phone poles and trees that would disagree with your assertion. Think of the treeeeeeeees.

Cinders aren't used around here for traction control, except, ya know, after forest fires in the summer.

more griping, not really winter related, but I just can't believe what people are thinking when they get behind the wheel.

Today I was trundling along in a work van in the slow lane on the highway about 60 mph in the city.

I come around the corner, and the slow and middle lane are blocked completely by stopped vehicles. Reason being is for some reason, a swan is wandering down the middle lane of the highway.

This is pretty much a blind curve, and the woman in front of me has a clear lane in the slow lane (swan is moving in the travel lane), but is taking a ****ing cell picture of the thing, meanwhile im waiting for a semi to come around the corner and paste both of us, so I lay on the horn.
Were it me, that swan would be run down before I stop on a highway like that, and if I slowed to preserve its life if I can, as soon as the lane was clear id be gunning it.

Meanwhile people are flying by in the fast lane at 70+. Just luck alone there was just enough room in traffic for people to move around or slow with no trucks at the moment, but it was about to be a disaster