15 Seconds to Safety: How to Identify a Winter Tire
We get questions about winter tires all the time. Well, not all the time – mostly in October when winter tire regulations go into effect on most BC highways until the end of March. Drivers
An initiative to keep you safe and moving during the winter season, and the work we do to make sure you are.
We get questions about winter tires all the time. Well, not all the time – mostly in October when winter tire regulations go into effect on most BC highways until the end of March. Drivers
Warning! Don’t let spring play an April Fools’ prank on you. Roadside signs state passenger vehicles are required to have winter tires, and commercial trucks must carry chains, on most BC highways between October 1
“I was in a hurry.” That was the excuse a Vancouver Island driver gave when one of our CVSE officers stopped him on the Malahat for driving with a mere “porthole” of snow cleared from
Having trouble viewing this video in your browser? Try watching it directly on our YouTube channel. UPDATE: Yellowhead Road & Bridge took over a new maintenance contract for SA 14/Coquihalla in July 2019 (replacing
[Note: Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nicola) Ltd. took over the highway maintenance contract for Service Area 14 as of July 1, 2019]. We’ve heard from a few folks recently asking how they can travel the
It’s pretty simple, really. Stopping distance is the distance it takes your vehicle to come to a complete stop once you apply your brakes. The faster you are travelling, the longer it will take you
Highway maintenance contractors are rescuers at the ready, should an unexpected avalanche cover an open highway. Their search and rescue training includes mock exercises where they practice avalanche transceiver use, and probing and shovelling skills used to locate buried avalanche victims. This training is critical to keeping the public and essential highway maintenance personnel safe in our mountainous province.
There’s an essential rule about sharing the road with snowplows: NEVER pass them on the right. In 2016, there were 11 collisions between cars and snowplows, on one BC highway alone. That’s a lot of