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Highway97

12 Practical Steps to Repairing Flood Damage in the South Peace

September 10, 2020September 9, 2020 4 Comments

We’re working as hard as we can to repair roads in the South Peace region, after major flooding in mid-June 2016 damaged more than 300 sites. Restoring roads takes some or all of 12 steps.

Categories BC Road Trips, Cone Zone, Flooding, Road Maintenance

Share and Share Alike – Federal Sections on Provincial Highways

September 8, 2022December 5, 2018 24 Comments

A strange thing happens when you’re travelling BC’s highways and you head through Rogers Pass, drive a section of Highway 93, cruise alongside Long Beach near Tofino, or travel Highway 97, 133 kilometres north of Dawson

Categories Avalanche Program, BC Travellers, Road Maintenance

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 Road Trip Time Machine: Cruising Highway 97 from PG to Dawson Creek

November 16, 2022August 11, 2015 Leave a comment

Hop aboard the latest episode of our 1966 road trip series – Highway 97 from Prince George to Dawson Creek. It’s a long ride, so we have broken it into three segments for you to

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

The Return of the Garbage Gobbler to BC Highways

November 16, 2022July 31, 2015 30 Comments

Do you remember the Garbage Gobbler? Created in the 1950s and placed across the province in B.C. Parks and at points along BC highways in order to “Keep Beautiful British Columbia, Clean and Beautiful,” Garbage

Categories BC Travellers
highway signs

Four Ways to Make Sense of our Highway Numbers

October 14, 2021January 8, 2014 8 Comments

Ever wonder what’s up with highway numbers? You’ve got Highway 1 in the south, Highway 2 in the north, Highway 3 even farther south than Highway 1, and then Highway 4 connecting rural communities on

Categories Tips and How Tos
BC Transportation highway

What Lurks Beyond – The Untold Story of the McIntyre Passing Lanes

March 5, 2021October 10, 2013 Leave a comment

In many ways, the McIntyre Passing Lanes project is much like any of our other projects. We’re widening a section of Highway 97, just north of Oliver, so we can put in passing lanes and

Categories BC Projects, Environment

Highway 97: Deer Dazzle for Safety

December 17, 2020May 18, 2012 Leave a comment

Most people in B.C. are familiar with the “leaping deer” depicted on provincial highway signs. But people travelling on Highway 97 south of Williams Lake and Quesnel may see deer signs with extra dazzle being

Categories Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Wildlife
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