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Old 12-05-2016, 08:39 PM   #4091
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Originally Posted by Tapioca View Post
Municipal governments and ICBC are separate organizations with different mandates.

If I were the chair of the Union of BC Municipalities, I would lobby Victoria to make winter tires mandatory on all privately-owned vehicles between the months of December and February.
quebec did that back in 2014...

Winter tires are mandatory in Quebec starting tomorrow - Montreal - CBC News

... one can only hope it could work here. but then i'm also assuming most drivers outside of the gvrd have the common sense to use winter tires because they have more consistent snowfall than here?
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