{"id":343,"date":"2010-03-06T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-03-06T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:10:44","slug":"alaska-winter-tire-bills-faces-tough-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/alaska-winter-tire-bills-faces-tough-road.html","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Winter Tire Bills Faces Tough Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

A bill that would have required Alaska residents to use winter snow tires has received a stormy reception in the Far North. http:\/\/www.tirebusiness.com\/subscriber\/headlines2.phtml?cat=1204552929&headline=Alaska+legislator+seeks+support+for+bill+mandating+winter+tire+use&id=1267799240#<\/a><\/p>\r\n

The bill, sponsored by Rep. John Harris, R-Valdez, had one hearing before the Transportation Committee of the Alaska House of Representatives Feb. 19.<\/p>\r\n

But Valdez has postponed a second hearing that had been set for Feb. 25 on the bill, which has drawn phones calls, FAXs and letters to the editor from its opponents. Harris is trying to rally support for the legislation.<\/p>\r\n

The bill mandates that Alaska drivers either have studded tires or those with a mountain-snowflake symbol between Dec. 15 and March 15, starting Dec. 15, 2011.<\/p>\r\n

During the first hearing, one presentation said that about 90 percent of Alaska residents use all-weather or summer tires in the winter, even though studded tires cause a 10 percent decrease in winter road accidents. In 2007 some 6,600 auto accidents, or 63 percent of the accidents in Alaska that year, took place in the winter.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bill that would have required Alaska residents to use winter snow tires has received a stormy reception in the Far North. http:\/\/www.tirebusiness.com\/subscriber\/headlines2.phtml?cat=1204552929&headline=Alaska+legislator+seeks+support+for+bill+mandating+winter+tire+use&id=1267799240# The bill, sponsored by Rep. John Harris, R-Valdez, had one hearing before the Transportation Committee of the Alaska House of Representatives Feb. 19. But Valdez has postponed a second hearing that had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,13,15,7,6,8,10,27],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-auto-accident","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-fishtail","tag-hydroplane","tag-skidding","tag-snow-skidding-accidents","tag-tire-lawyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t