Updates and background on the work we do to maintain and rehab BC bridges and highways during the spring, summer and fall.
No, we aren’t making jackets for cold little seals, although that is a nice thought – isn’t it? Sealcoating is actually a common type of road resurfacing done on BC highways. It involves the application
Rockfalls tend to happen more often in spring, when changing temperatures and increased rainfall can affect slopes above highways. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Rockwork Program uses a variety of techniques to keep rock
What has three colours of flashing lights and travels up to 80 kilometres an hour on BC highways while simultaneously gathering more than 10,000 measurements per second? It’s ARAN – the Automatic Road Analyzer! We
Parked along the highway, abandoned vehicles can be eerie, mysterious, even menacing…. You can’t help but wonder…what happened to the occupants? What is the story behind the vehicle left behind? Whenever the Ministry of Transportation
When the snow starts falling, the plows hit the roads. Sounds like it could almost be a country song, but it’s also the theme of our “Winter Maintenance on B.C. Highways” video, which was shot on
If you live in or travel through the East Kootenays, you know what the weather and the roads have been like lately. If you haven’t been through there in the last couple of weeks,
Have a good look at the picture below. It’s a shot of a snow plow on Kootenay Pass on Highway 3 between Creston and Salmo in the mid-sixties. Notice anything unusual? Probably not, because what
There’s been a lot of interest recently about our bridges and how they’re inspected. Here’s the scoop. We manage an inventory of more than 2,900 bridges plus concession* bridges throughout the province. Sounds like