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The price of our safety on winter roads

Editor:

What's with the practice of spreading sand/salt down the middle of the road, three feet wide right on the center line? 

It is causing a hazardous driving conditions and possible head on collisions.

 It is a phenomenon where everybody drives with their driver's side tires on the sand for traction down the center line. 

After a snowfall, as the snow packs in on the road surface, what should be two lanes is set as one and a half. 

So

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