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  • Travellers
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BC Highway

Your Most Popular BC Winter Maintenance Questions, Answered

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 Leave a comment

Winter driving and highway maintenance in BC got you worried? Don’t fret – we’re on it. We take our commitment to provide a safe, reliable transportation network very seriously, and the performance of our maintenance

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter, Trucking

Have you Heard of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)?

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 12 Comments

BC HighwayCams, dynamic message signs, weather stations, reversible lane control… Any idea what these things have in common? If you guessed they’re all Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), you’d be right! With the advancement in technologies,

Categories BC Travellers, DriveBC Tech, Trucking

Snapshots in Time: Who is the “Highways Department”?

October 1, 2018September 19, 2017 21 Comments

If you’ve visited us here before, you probably know that sometimes, we like to kick it old school. We throw it back here, on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with pictures, video and stories about how

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Lytton to Revelstoke, circa 1966

August 9, 2018February 25, 2016 21 Comments

You asked for this one and we are happy to deliver it. Step back in time with us as we travel BC Highway 1 from Lytton to Revelstoke, circa 1966. This super cool, historical photolog

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

Crashes and Highway Closures: Why the Delay?

November 8, 2018October 19, 2015 19 Comments

When any BC highway is closed due to a crash, some of the questions and comments we get are: “Why is it taking so long to open the road?” “Don’t you just take some pictures

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos
BC Highway road trip

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

November 7, 2018June 5, 2015 26 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
Geo Assess Engineers

What Happens After a Rock Hits a BC Highway

November 7, 2018March 30, 2015 44 Comments

Rockfalls tend to happen more often in spring, when slopes above highways can be affected by changing temperatures and increased rainfall. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Rockwork Program uses a variety of techniques to

Categories Emergency Info, Road Maintenance

BC RoadTrip Time Machine: The Malahat, circa 1966

October 3, 2018February 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 Road Trips, BC Travellers
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