A fine for failing to use winter tires?

Posted Dec 23, 2009 8:19 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A Calgary alderman says she has a new plan to encourage the use of snow tires.

Diane Colley-Urquhart tells the Calgary Sun she plans to ask the Police Commission and city council to try to make a German law work in Calgary.

Under the law, if you’re involved in a crash or your vehicle is backing up traffic, police examine your tires.

If they’re not winter tires, you get a $70 fine.

Colley-Urquhart says she believes bad driving on sub-par tires is as much to blame for snarling traffic as the city’s snow removal budget.

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