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Environment

Updates and behind the scenes information around our environmental initiatives, projects and programs, including wildlife mitigation, active transportation, Adopt-a-Highway and more.

Platform Offers Nesting Opportunity for Ospreys

April 12, 2023January 18, 2017 2 Comments

What the heck do ospreys and the BC Ministry of Transportation have in common? Would you believe the W.R. Bennett Bridge? You see, we aren’t just responsible for highways and the travellers who use them;

Categories BC Travellers, Environment, Wildlife

Evergreen Line Extension – Moments Along the Journey

December 15, 2022December 2, 2016 Leave a comment

We made history achieving the longest fully automated rapid transit system in the world. We also moved it. We reached high, dug deep below, and enhanced wildlife areas along the way. Here is a collection of

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Projects, Engineering, Environment, Transit

See How Environmental Responsibility Goes with our Transportation Infrastructure

November 6, 2023November 30, 2016 2 Comments

Whenever we update or build BC infrastructure, environmental responsibility is a key part of the process. You’ve driven over, under or through countless examples of our efforts to make BC highways better for everyone and

Categories Environment, Wildlife

Behind the Scenes: BC Wildlife, Trucks Saved from Collision

July 11, 2022July 27, 2016 22 Comments

Now that the two Wildlife Detection Systems on Highway 3 have been operating for about three months (as of July 2016), we thought you’d be interested is seeing some of the thermal camera footage we’ve

Categories BC Travellers, Wildlife

How Adopt a Highway Volunteers Are Armed for Weeds War

January 6, 2023May 26, 2016 2 Comments

We’re fighting invasive plants along BC highways, and we’re asking Adopt a Highway to volunteers in keeping these unwelcome pests from taking over more territory. Adopt a Highway volunteers are our invaluable in the getting

Categories Adopt a Highway, Road Maintenance
Project Work

What’s the Best Thing About the Luxor Creek Bridge?

January 6, 2023April 27, 2016 3 Comments

Sometimes we work on a project that changes not just the highway, but the world around it. Such was the case with our recent work on scenic Highway 95 at Luxor Creek.  A key wildlife

Categories BC Travellers, Environment, Wildlife

How You (and your EV) Can Get Moving in BC

January 5, 2023April 5, 2016 120 Comments

Plug in. Charge up. Go! Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) can get a boost to their travel times thanks to recent legislation allowing them to use High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV) lanes in BC (regardless of

Categories BC Travellers, Environment

New Way to Protect Wildlife on Highway 3

March 7, 2018February 10, 2016 21 Comments

UPDATE March 7, 2017 When we pilot a new project like this, we do so with the intent to test, learn and with understanding that there may be some bumps along the way. Those “bumps”

Categories BC Travellers, Wildlife
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