Originally Posted by
tjspiel
I find that my road tires work fine for that although you do have to be careful on the leaves and the ice. The tires you've listed might be great options for those conditions but I personally don't feel I need a specialized tire. The situation where I ride might be different though. They usually clean the streets here after most of the leaves have fallen. There's not a lot of sand to deal with until spring.
Thanks for the thoughts tjspiel. I commute on my road bike with 700x23's for much of the year, but I think what draws me to wanting a wider tire for the fall/winter is the combination of darkness and sand/etc, along with riding on very busy (60 mph/100kph traffic) roads. My main concentration is given over to the automotive traffic, and in the dark I'm afraid I'll miss a small patch of something that will send me down on a narrow high pressure road tire, where I might get through it with a wider tire, bigger contact patch and some tread.
Curiously, the internet seems almost entirely devoid of reviews for several of the tires in my list.