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  • Travellers
    • Shift Into Winter
    • Cone Zone
    • Road Maintenance
    • Tips and How Tos
    • BC Road Trips
  • 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
    • Current Road Advisories and Information
    • About Avalanche
    • About Flooding
    • About Wildfire
  • Careers
    • Career Stories
    • TELP/EIT/GIT Program

BC Travellers

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

Warm Weather and Tick Season

Ewwwwww, Watch Out for Those Creepy Crawlers – It’s Tick Season

June 4, 2020April 7, 2011 2 Comments

Well, now that warmer temperatures have arrived in some areas, so have some of the other little creatures we expect to see each spring – in particular, ticks. Just the other day, one of our

Categories Tips and How Tos, Wildlife

Crack Sealing – Smoothing the Cracks of Age

November 5, 2020March 24, 2011 6 Comments

Water is a road’s worst enemy and crack sealing is our first defence against pavement deterioration. Each year we perform approximately 2 million lineal metres of crack sealing, enough to fill a crack between Vancouver,

Categories Road Maintenance
Street sweeping

Our Maintenance Contractors are Sweeping Away Winter

November 3, 2020March 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Spring cleaning isn’t just for home; we do it on our roads too! Over the colder, snowy months, winter abrasives have accumulated along the shoulders of our roads. We’re hoping winter’s done with us but

Categories Road Maintenance
winter maintenance

Winter Traction – Why Small Rocks, Instead of Sand

April 27, 2022February 17, 2011 63 Comments

Home owners can treat icy sidewalks with sand, but on a slippery highway, whipping winds and passing trucks can blow away light material within minutes. Instead, when there’s a need for extra traction, our maintenance

Categories Shift into Winter

Personal or Commercial Vehicle – How and When to Chain Up

April 27, 2022February 3, 2011 121 Comments

How and when to install chains — whether you drive a passenger vehicle or you operate a commercial vehicle. Winter tire and chain requirements are in place from Oct. 1 – April 30, throughout most of BC.

Categories Shift into Winter
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