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Emergency Info

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

An Emergency Kit Show and Tell to Help Shift Into Winter

May 7, 2019December 18, 2012 4 Comments

We’ve been focusing a lot lately on preparing for winter driving, and an important part of that is making sure you and your car are equipped in case of an emergency. There are many lists

Categories Emergency Info, Shift into Winter

Hey, You Got a Problem? 9 Ways to Let Us (and Others) Know

May 13, 2014September 18, 2012 3 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 Info, Road Maintenance, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

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

March 20, 2019July 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 Info
BC Flood

Flood Management: Our Role in Keeping Floodwaters at Bay

March 14, 2019May 25, 2012 2 Comments

  Spring Flowers, or is it Showers? Well, depending on where you live, spring showers don’t bring flowers, they bring freshet (rapid snowpack melt and overwhelmed stream channels) and sometimes flooding. Since rising water can

Categories Flooding
Drive smart during a flood

Drive Flood Smart: Find Higher Ground or Turn Around

June 7, 2019May 9, 2012 Leave a comment

If you’re Flood Smart you also drive smart – or you don’t drive at all. During a flooding situation, road closures can take place across B.C. and driving your vehicle can become increasingly hazardous. DriveBC’s

Categories Flooding

Avalanche Control: Timing “Train Travel” on Bear Pass

March 14, 2019April 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
Winter safety

What’s it Like? An Interview with a BC Avalanche Tech

May 12, 2014March 5, 2012 2 Comments

We’ve had a lot of interest in our avalanche program lately, so we thought we’d give you an inside look at what goes on there. Meet Avalanche Tech Robb Andersen. Robb’s been working in avalanche

Categories Avalanche Program, Career Stories
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Our Avalanche Crews Know Snow Flow

January 31, 2019February 7, 2012 Leave a comment

How We Trigger Avalanches to Make Our Roads Safer for Travellers The snow falls thick and fast, and the mountain slopes become more and more unstable. Is it enough to set off an avalanche? Luckily,

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