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highwaysafety

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

Scalers – Top to Bottom Rock Removal Specialists

September 12, 2023October 20, 2022 5 Comments

Scalers work above roadways to help keep motorists safe from falling rock or encountering a surprise boulder (or three). Their work as rock removal specialists also enables workers and equipment to safely perform construction below.

Categories Engineering, Feature Articles, Road Maintenance

6 Steps to Safely Secure a Load onto Your Passenger Vehicle

September 12, 2023August 31, 2022 Leave a comment

Transporting items by attaching them to the roof of your passenger vehicle requires planning and attention to ensure you safely secure the load, and don’t cause a hazard to others, or yourself, on your route.

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos

How to Stay Cool and Safe While Driving in BC Summer Heat

June 13, 2024July 13, 2022 Leave a comment

With summers getting hotter, we’ve got information on how you and your passengers can stay cool and safe while driving in BC summer heat.

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers, Feature Articles, Tips and How Tos

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 line marking machine paints a stretch of highway in BC.

The Evolving Story of Brighter, More Durable Line Painting

August 19, 2022July 23, 2020 52 Comments

Line painting in BC has been evolving since oil-based paints were discontinued by federal regulations in 2010, due to concerns around the environment and worker exposure to volatile organic compounds. We hear a lot of

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance
Types of Transportation Engineers

Why Transportation Needs 6 Types of Engineers

March 31, 2023March 17, 2020 Leave a comment

“Engineering” is a single word for many different forms of knowledge. “Transportation engineering” narrows it down a bit, but specializations branch out further still. There are approximately 210 staff members in our Engineering Services Branch,

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Travellers
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