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BC Travellers

Information of interest to commuters, tourists and recreational drivers in rural and urban BC.

3 Types of Highway Barriers and How We Use Them for Safety

January 19, 2023 49 Comments

British Columbia’s beautiful, but rugged, terrain means our highway infrastructure must often hug mountainsides and carry over chasms. One of the most important ways we protect travellers’ safety is by installing highway barriers to stop

Categories BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 97 from Cache Creek to Prince George in 1966

January 4, 2023December 21, 2022 Leave a comment

Great Scott! If our calculations are correct, the flux capacitor has taken our beloved BC Road Trip Time Machine back to Highway 97 – between Cache Creek and Prince George – as it was during

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers, Feature Articles

How BC Air Access Provides Small Airport Funding and Supports Safety

January 4, 2023December 7, 2022 2 Comments

BC’s 300 aviation facilities have critical roles to play, like wildfire suppression and medical evacuation (medevac), and we’re helping to support them with small airport funding from the BC Air Access Program (BCAAP).

Categories BC Aviation Facilities, BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers, Emergency Events, Funding Programs
New bridge installed on BC Highway 8 following damage from November 2021 Atmospheric River event.

Where Are We Now? BC Atmospheric River Event – A Year in Review

January 4, 2023November 24, 2022 4 Comments

It was an event unlike anything we’ve ever experienced here in the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. When an atmospheric river brought an unprecedented amount of rain to the province in November 2021 – BC

Categories BC Travellers, Emergency Events, Flooding

Scalers – Top to Bottom Rock Removal Specialists

December 1, 2022October 20, 2022 3 Comments

Scalers work above roadways to help keep motorists safe from falling rock or encountering a surprise boulder (or three). Their work as rock removal specialists also enables workers and equipment to safely perform construction below.

Categories Engineering, Road Maintenance
Two residential school survivors painting bridge orange

How Repainting Orange Bridge Strengthens Reflection and Healing

January 4, 2023October 19, 2022 3 Comments

Reactions to the orange bridge paint now covering parts of the Riverbend Bridge in Port Alberni prove that an infrastructure improvement doesn’t have to be physically large in scale to have major positive impacts on

Categories BC Highway History
Sun hitting mountains at Duffey Lake

Your BC Road Trip Photo Quest’s 10 Best for 2022

November 1, 2022September 20, 2022 Leave a comment

For the past few years, we’ve been celebrating your thirst for adventure by inviting you to share your road trip photos in, what we call, the BC Road Trip Photo Quest. At the start of summer,

Categories BC Road Trips

6 Steps to Safely Secure a Load onto Your Passenger Vehicle

November 25, 2022August 31, 2022 Leave a comment

Transporting items by attaching them to the roof of your passenger vehicle requires planning and attention to ensure you safely secure the load, and don’t cause a hazard to others, or yourself, on your route.

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos
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