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Search Results for: Time machine

BC Highway road trip

Road Trip Time Machine: BC Highway 97 – U.S. Border to Vernon, circa 1966

October 17, 2022June 5, 2015 28 Comments

As some of you already know, we’ve been digging deep into storage and digitizing 16mm photolog footage from 1966 to give you our BC Road Trip Time Machine video series. (“Photologs” were created to capture

Categories BC Travellers

Ride the BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 1 and Port Mann Bridge 1966

October 6, 2022March 25, 2015 4 Comments

By now, you may have already experienced what it’s like to go back in time through our BC Road Trip Time Machine series. Using an old 16 mm reel from our Photolog program archives, we

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

BC RoadTrip Time Machine: The Malahat, circa 1966

August 19, 2022February 10, 2015 6 Comments

A while back, we posted an invitation to Drive a BC Highway in 15,000 Photos. It was a fast-paced tour of the Coquihalla Highway from 2008 and an introduction to our Photolog program. That post

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

Meet ARAN – the “Flashy” Road Analyzing Tool

August 18, 2022December 8, 2014 2 Comments

What has three colours of flashing lights and travels up to 80 kilometres an hour on BC highways while simultaneously gathering more than 10,000 measurements per second? It’s ARAN – the Automatic Road Analyzer! We

Categories Road Maintenance
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What We Do with Abandoned Vehicles on BC Highways

October 28, 2021July 10, 2014 108 Comments

Parked along the highway, abandoned vehicles can be eerie, mysterious, even menacing…. You can’t help but wonder…what happened to the occupants? What is the story behind the vehicle left behind? Whenever the Ministry of Transportation

Categories Road Maintenance

New Port Mann Bridge Open for Business

June 1, 2021November 30, 2012 Leave a comment

We made it. The New Port Mann Bridge – the widest bridge in the world, as well as the second largest and longest cable-supported bridge in North America, is now open. This monumental achievement would

Categories BC Projects

National Science and Technology Week: In Photos

May 13, 2014October 23, 2012 Leave a comment

There seems to be an official week or day for everything these days – yar, there’s even Talk Like a Pirate Day. Seriously… it was just last month. But there’s credibility behind something like National

Categories Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Massive wind crane with wind turbine

Crane Crossing Contributes to Green Energy Project

April 24, 2023September 14, 2012 Leave a comment

Q. Why did the cranes cross the road? A. To build the wind farm on the other side. The cranes in this instance are two colossal pieces of machinery. Each weighs 680 tonnes (equal to

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