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3 Types of Highway Barriers and How We Use Them for Safety

September 12, 2023January 19, 2023 62 Comments

British Columbia’s beautiful, but rugged, terrain means our highway infrastructure must often hug mountainsides and carry over chasms. One of the most important ways we protect travellers’ safety is by installing highway barriers to stop

Categories BC Travellers

Our Structural Engineering Team Helps Keep BC Moving

July 11, 2022August 31, 2021 2 Comments

Bridges. Tunnels. Overpasses. Many of us count on them daily to cross over (and under) rivers and other tricky spots without even really thinking about the details that go into designing and maintaining these structures.

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers, TELP/EIT/GIT Program

Why Some BC Highway Webcams Can Go Down in Winter

January 8, 2024January 22, 2021 41 Comments

You love BC Highway Cams and so do we. Our network of 496 cameras delivering 1,013 views of current keep you in the know before you go. We monitor our systems around the clock to

Categories BC Travellers, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

The ABCs of Winter Highway Classification and Maintenance

March 3, 2023December 18, 2020 173 Comments

Our maintenance contractors work hard every day to keep BC highways safe and traffic moving smoothly. Because British Columbia is a geographically diverse province, our contractors can face any number of unique challenges where highway

Categories Road Maintenance

A BC Highways Perspective of the Hope Slide

October 25, 2023January 8, 2020 76 Comments

It was the largest known landslide in Canadian history. The Hope Slide forever changed the landscape of the Nicolum Valley in the Cascade Mountain Range, tragically taking the lives of four motorists who were on

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
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Rutting Season is Here: Watch for Deer

September 12, 2023October 28, 2019 Leave a comment

No one likes falling into a rut – unless you’re a male deer that is. Why do bucks enjoy being in a rut so much? Well… the rut, or ‘rutting season’ as it’s also known,

Categories Wildlife
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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

Innovative Rockfall Netting System Aims to Improve Safety at Three Valley Gap

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 12 Comments

About 20 kilometres west of Revelstoke lies a short stretch of BC Highway 1 with a unique geography. Running in-between Three Valley Lake and the Monashee Mountains, Three Valley Gap is, quite literally, located between

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers, Commercial Vehicles, Trucking
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