Tight vote keeps Edmonton's road salting project alive for another season

Wipe your shoes, wash your vehicles — Edmonton’s anti-icing road salt pilot project will be back for another year.
After hours of debate Tuesday, city council approved a third year of using calcium chloride brine and  traditional salt to get to bare pavement on main roads. But the vote was close. A motion to cancel the project failed in a 6-7 vote.
It means the project is on a short leash. Officials have one more year to test their new techniques, trying to reduce the amount of