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Search Results for: okanagan

A Closer Look At Commercial Passenger Transportation Licencing

April 19, 2022December 17, 2019 10 Comments

If you’re driving people around, and you’re making money at it, you probably need a licence. Follow our chart to see what happens with general authorization licences and special authorization licences.

Categories Passenger Transportation
bc, british columbia, transportation, bc highways, ministry of transportation and infrastructure, tranbc

In a Nutshell: What We Do for BC Transportation

August 6, 2024July 19, 2019 2 Comments

With a broad name like Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, there are bound to be questions. Like small-talk at a cocktail party, those 13 syllables beg the question: “So, what do you do?” Some of

Categories BC Travellers, Commercial Vehicles

A Day in the Life of a District Manager

July 5, 2022February 5, 2019 4 Comments

If you’ve ever reached out to your local Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure district office about an issue, there’s a good chance you’ve talked to one of our district managers. The District Manager, Transportation (also

Categories Career Stories, Careers
Highway 97 Lettering

The Story of the Highway 97 Alphabet

July 11, 2022June 29, 2018 34 Comments

Scan around Canada’s highway system and you’ll find that BC is the only province to have an A, B, C and D version of a highway. In this province, those letters are tagged onto Highway

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

Behind the Scenes on Upcoming Stickle Road Improvements

December 5, 2018April 18, 2018 4 Comments

It’s a fact. BC is a heck of a popular place and our highways and byways are getting busier and busier. What should be a simple left turn can sometimes take a long, long time

Categories BC Travellers

BC Highway History Alert! More Snapshots in Time Revealed

November 1, 2021January 9, 2018 47 Comments

Are you a BC Highways history nerd? If so – GET READY! We promised you more amazing historical images after our first historical snapshots blog  and we are delivering on that promise. Don’t consider yourself

Categories BC Highway History

A Westside Road Story – Breathtaking Route Being Improved

April 7, 2021February 14, 2017 19 Comments

Westside Road is a narrow, picturesque, two-lane road running along Okanagan Lake in the BC interior. Its dramatic beauty and winding roads make it a pretty popular route for motorists of all types. To keep

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers

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
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