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    • Road Maintenance
    • Tips and How Tos
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  • Commercial Vehicles
    • Trucking
    • Passenger Transportation
  • Engineering
    • BC Projects
    • BC Infrastructure
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
    • BC Highway History
  • Environment
    • Wildlife
    • Avalanche and Weather Program
    • Active Transportation
    • Adopt a Highway
    • Transit
  • Emergency Events
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BC Travellers

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

Everything You Need to Know About Travel Advisories on BC Highways

December 9, 2019December 20, 2018 13 Comments

Ministry staff and our highway maintenance contractors work around the clock to keep travellers on BC highways moving safely, but sometimes extreme weather (or other emergency conditions) create special circumstances that can pose challenges for

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance, Shift into Winter, Trucking
wilfred hwy 19a bridge fish salvage

Cheers to 15 Years of Helping Fish and Wildlife Find their Way

January 15, 2019December 14, 2018 5 Comments

We spend a lot of our time working on ways to keep folks safe and sound while travelling BC Highways. Did you know that we also spend a great deal of time looking for ways

Categories BC Travellers, Environment, Wildlife

Share and Share Alike – Federal Sections on Provincial Highways

September 8, 2022December 5, 2018 24 Comments

A strange thing happens when you’re travelling BC’s highways and you head through Rogers Pass, drive a section of Highway 93, cruise alongside Long Beach near Tofino, or travel Highway 97, 133 kilometres north of Dawson

Categories Avalanche Program, BC Travellers, Road Maintenance
Chain up configuration

What You Need to Know About Commercial Vehicle Chain-Up Rules

October 12, 2023November 28, 2018 100 Comments

We introduced better chain-up regulations for commercial vehicles, which provide more clarity for professional drivers, in 2018.  This means safer roads. The changes came in the wake of one of our worst winters for highway

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter, Trucking
national day of remembrance for Road Crash Victims

Take Time for the National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims

November 15, 2023November 21, 2018 2 Comments

re-mem-brance (ri-mem-‘br-ens) noun.    the act or process of remembering the state of being remembered The third Wednesday in November is the National Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims in Canada – a day set

Categories BC Travellers

Why We’re Keeping Commercial Trucks Out of Some Left Lanes on the Coquihalla

December 2, 2020November 13, 2018 128 Comments

We’re restricting commercial vehicles from using the far left lane northbound on the Coquihalla’s Snowshed Hill between Box Canyon and Zopkios with our No Trucks in the Left Lane pilot program. The restriction is in

Categories BC Travellers, Trucking
zombies ahead on overhead sign

How to Have a Safe and Happy Halloween

October 28, 2021October 30, 2018 Leave a comment

Darkness falls. A cold wind blows – bending gnarled tree branches and creating strange shapes and distorted shadows… Halloween is here. We love Halloween, and we know you love it too. In order to keep

Categories BC Travellers
Box Canyon Lane Configuration

How to Navigate the Box Canyon Chain-up with Ease

March 5, 2019October 26, 2018 9 Comments

Commercial drivers on the Coquihalla have a lot more room to equip their vehicles with chains now that the Box Canyon chain-up facility has expanded from 14 to more than 70 parking spaces. But the

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