Learn to Use BC HighwayCams Like a Pro in 3 Minutes
You don’t have to be the “Webcam Guy” to be a DriveBC webcam expert. You can get the big picture and scan B.C. highways with ease, all with a little help from your friends here at
A look at the ways ITS (BC HighwayCams, dynamic message signs, weather stations, reversible lane control, to name a few) help keep travellers in BC moving safely and efficiently.
You don’t have to be the “Webcam Guy” to be a DriveBC webcam expert. You can get the big picture and scan B.C. highways with ease, all with a little help from your friends here at
Lately, we’ve been introducing you to some of the folks who work around here, not only to provide you with a better idea of what we do as a ministry, but also to give you
This custom-designed wood chipper is suspended by a helicopter, to whittle down trees that are a threat to BC highways.
A wide range of characters travel BC highways. There’s the early morning commuter, mug of hot coffee at the ready. Then there’s the commercial truck driver, riding high with an elevated view of the road.
Based on the feedback you send us, you love our webcams, and you depend on them to be informed and travel safely throughout the province. Being so popular, our webcams are also the source for
To determine how best to protect travellers, the ministry and maintenance contractors monitor and forecast weather using roadside weather, remote avalanche weather and frost probe stations. if there is a concern with dropping temperatures, we can set an alert to notify us when a specific temperature is reached, allowing crews to apply salt in either solid or liquid (brine solution) form before freezing begins.
Since when do snow, sleet, ice and SPICE go together? Since the Solid Precipitation Inter Comparison Experiment (SPICE) began at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Coquihalla summit weather station. This international study is using
Some people are accustomed to “jumping on the bus” – another way to say climbing aboard. But how does something as heavy as a transit bus jump ahead of traffic at a busy intersection? And