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Boots on the Ground: A Day in the Life of a Road Area Manager

July 5, 2022July 26, 2017 14 Comments

They’re out there… Day and night, on highways (and certain side roads) across the province. Who are they and what are they doing? They’re our Road Area Managers and they pretty much do it all.

Categories Career Stories, Road Maintenance

Straight out of the Floods and into the Wildfires

August 17, 2021July 19, 2017 Leave a comment

Many BC wildfires occur far from cities and towns, but sometimes they threaten homes, businesses and infrastructure, such as highways and bridges.With hundreds of wildfires heating up around the province and not showing any signs

Categories Emergency Events

See What Tofino and Ucluelet Was Like in the 1960s

October 7, 2021April 6, 2017 39 Comments

Have you ever wondered what it was like in Tofino and Ucluelet 50 years ago? If you’re already familiar with our photolog video series, you know how fascinating it is to tour British Columbia as

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
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What it’s Like to Work in Transportation Engineering Part 2

December 5, 2019March 21, 2017 2 Comments

  In Part 1 of our interview series, we introduced you to a traffic and safety engineer, an electrical engineer, and a highway design engineer. It’s time to round out our engineering team by getting

Categories Careers, Wildlife
transportation BC

What it’s Like to Work in Transportation Engineering Part 1

March 21, 2022March 13, 2017 3 Comments

Engineering reveals itself in all sorts of ways on highways. To help you understand the wide range of engineering expertise involved in building and improving transportation in British Columbia, we created a blog post summarizing

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Your Top TranBC Engineering Stories

April 1, 2021March 6, 2017 5 Comments

In Canada, we celebrate National Engineering and Geoscience Month in March, highlighting the importance of engineering as a career and its impact on our daily lives. Engineering is such a HUGE part of what we

Categories BC Infrastructure, Careers

Watch What Happens When Moose Meet Wildlife Underpass

September 25, 2018March 1, 2017 3 Comments

We set up cameras at wildlife overpasses and underpasses to monitor how mammals and amphibians use them to safely cross highways. If we can watch their behaviour, we can see what’s working and what can

Categories Environment, Wildlife

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

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