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Emergency Events

Timely and behind the scenes information around incident response and events impacting travel.

It’s ShakeOut Time: What’s Under Your Desk?

October 14, 2022October 2, 2013 Leave a comment

GUEST POST via Emergency Management BC We’ll never turn down a chance to plug emergency preparedness. So when the folks at TranBC asked us to help promote The Great British Columbia ShakeOut, we wholeheartedly said,

Categories Emergency Events
avalanche control

Photo Blog: Avalanche Control Over BC Highways

September 28, 2021January 19, 2013 2 Comments

Avalanches are mesmerizing – at least from a safe distance, whether that be via video, photograph, or directly from a helicopter. No one gets closer to the action than our avalanche control technicians. They trek

Categories Avalanche Program

An Emergency Kit Show and Tell to Help Shift Into Winter

November 1, 2023December 18, 2012 12 Comments

We’re popping our trunk to share a few of the items we like to carry around when the temperature drops. These are essential to making sure you and your car are equipped in case of an emergency, to stay safe.

Categories Emergency Events, Shift into Winter

Hey, You Got a Problem? 10 Ways to Let Us (and Others) Know

December 11, 2020September 18, 2012 7 Comments

A concern, a problem, a beef, an issue… There are lots of words to express that something is unsatisfactory or unsettling to you. And at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, there are several ways

Categories BC Travellers, Emergency Events, Road Maintenance, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

Emergency “What If” Scenario: Are Highways Prepared for Earthquakes?

November 29, 2020July 23, 2012 3 Comments

British Columbia is located within the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is an area around the Pacific Ocean that experiences a high number of earthquakes. As much as we’d like to, the Ministry of Transportation

Categories Emergency Events

Avalanche Control: Timing “Train Travel” on Bear Pass

January 26, 2022April 20, 2012 Leave a comment

Q. What train can travel 70 possible routes over a glacier, from 2,500 metre-high mountain tops down to near sea level, in about 20 seconds? A. An “avalanche train” in Bear Pass. An avalanche train

Categories Avalanche Program

BC Avalanche Control: Exploding for Highway Safety

September 27, 2021January 24, 2012 2 Comments

Our Avalanche and Weather Program teams are on the job 24 hours a day to keep you and our roads safe. How? The best way is to show you… Check out this video and see

Categories Avalanche Program

From Saturated to Solid – Peace Roads Repaired for Winter

December 1, 2020January 9, 2012 Leave a comment

It was an epic rainstorm and a marathon recovery…but things have firmed up nicely in the Peace. After massive rainfalls damaged more than 140 roads in the Peace Region this summer, the highway system is

Categories Flooding
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