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I think it would be acceptable to regulate more harshly where the salmon live. Make regulations that force getting the new tires as soon as possible if you live

by carlmr 6y ago

I think it would be acceptable to regulate more harshly where the salmon live. Make regulations that force getting the new tires as soon as possible if you live within 100 miles of a river with salmon or your commute touches this zone. That way you could get the results in 2-3 years with a minimal extra cost because only a small part of the US and Canada have to renew their tires earlier.

toast0 6y ago
What's your proposed enforcement mechanism? Where I live in the puget sound region, there's no regular inspections on vehicles, because my county doesn't require emission checks, and WA doesn't have a periodic safety inspection, so a tire check program would be a totally new thing. It seems to me that trying to figure out if that chemical can be replaced with something else, and if that something else is safe would be priority one. Priority two would be trying to filter the urban runoff somehow (which is probably a positive for many other pollutants). Getting people to switch their tires a little sooner seems like too much effort for too little gain; tires are going to wear out or get too old and be replaced anyway, and there's a lot of cars from out of the area. Maybe, you could do a rebate program to encourage people in the area to update a little sooner.
- carlmr 6y ago
  >WA doesn't have a periodic safety inspection, so a tire check program would be a totally new thing. Ok, wow, that's so unexpected. In Germany we have mandatory safety and emissions inspections every two years. That also explains why there were so many parts of tires on roads in WA, last time I was there. >Maybe, you could do a rebate program to encourage people in the area to update a little sooner. That would probably get us 80% of the way there, especially if you tell people why they should switch.

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I think it would be acceptable to regulate more harshly where the salmon live. Make regulations that force getting the new tires as soon as possible if you live

by carlmr 6y ago

toast0 6y ago
What's your proposed enforcement mechanism? Where I live in the puget sound region, there's no regular inspections on vehicles, because my county doesn't require emission checks, and WA doesn't have a periodic safety inspection, so a tire check program would be a totally new thing. It seems to me that trying to figure out if that chemical can be replaced with something else, and if that something else is safe would be priority one. Priority two would be trying to filter the urban runoff somehow (which is probably a positive for many other pollutants). Getting people to switch their tires a little sooner seems like too much effort for too little gain; tires are going to wear out or get too old and be replaced anyway, and there's a lot of cars from out of the area. Maybe, you could do a rebate program to encourage people in the area to update a little sooner.
- carlmr 6y ago
  >WA doesn't have a periodic safety inspection, so a tire check program would be a totally new thing. Ok, wow, that's so unexpected. In Germany we have mandatory safety and emissions inspections every two years. That also explains why there were so many parts of tires on roads in WA, last time I was there. >Maybe, you could do a rebate program to encourage people in the area to update a little sooner. That would probably get us 80% of the way there, especially if you tell people why they should switch.