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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
    • Current Road Advisories and Information
    • About Avalanche
    • About Flooding
    • About Wildfire
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    • TELP/EIT/GIT Program

BC Travellers

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

Woman riding bike on a cold day in Kamloops

How to Keep Active Transportation Going in Winter

February 6, 2024December 3, 2020 16 Comments

According to a general population survey, bad weather is the top reason people choose not to travel to work, school or other activities using active transportation (that’s travelling by bike, on foot, wheelchair, skateboard, skis…

Categories Active Transportation, Shift into Winter

Behind the Scenes with Our Highway Operations Managers

April 30, 2021September 16, 2020 6 Comments

Welcome to the work of our operations managers… It takes a cool head in emergencies, problem-solving and planning skills, an ability to communicate with a vast variety of people – and in one case – an eight-hour drive to the job.

Categories Career Stories, Careers, Road Maintenance

12 Practical Steps to Repairing Flood Damage in the South Peace

September 10, 2020September 9, 2020 4 Comments

We’re working as hard as we can to repair roads in the South Peace region, after major flooding in mid-June 2016 damaged more than 300 sites. Restoring roads takes some or all of 12 steps.

Categories BC Road Trips, Cone Zone, Flooding, Road Maintenance
A line marking machine paints a stretch of highway in BC.

The Evolving Story of Brighter, More Durable Line Painting

August 19, 2022July 23, 2020 52 Comments

Line painting in BC has been evolving since oil-based paints were discontinued by federal regulations in 2010, due to concerns around the environment and worker exposure to volatile organic compounds. We hear a lot of

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance
Yield Sign at Roundabout

How to Safely Use Roundabouts in BC

January 13, 2023July 2, 2020 144 Comments

The rise of roundabouts in BC has set some people’s heads spinning on how to safely navigate them, whether as a driver, cyclist or pedestrian. So, we created the following guide to help set the

Categories Tips and How Tos

A Look Back at the BC Provincial Sign Shop

September 25, 2020June 18, 2020 25 Comments

Signage on BC highways is an essential tool to help us communicate information to motorists about the road ahead. Whether a regulatory, warning, or guide sign is called for, we make sure our signs are

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Travel Back to Highway 14 in 1966

November 27, 2020May 14, 2020 15 Comments

Get in and buckle up! Our beloved BC Road Trip Time Machine is back in action. This time we set our “flux capacitor” to Highway 14 (also known as West Coast Road) during the spring

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers
Types of Transportation Engineers

Why Transportation Needs 6 Types of Engineers

March 31, 2023March 17, 2020 Leave a comment

“Engineering” is a single word for many different forms of knowledge. “Transportation engineering” narrows it down a bit, but specializations branch out further still. There are approximately 210 staff members in our Engineering Services Branch,

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers
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