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highwaysafety

BC Highway History Alert! More Snapshots in Time Revealed

November 1, 2021January 9, 2018 47 Comments

Are you a BC Highways history nerd? If so – GET READY! We promised you more amazing historical images after our first historical snapshots blog  and we are delivering on that promise. Don’t consider yourself

Categories BC Highway History

BC Highway U-Turns Don’t Necessarily Mean YOU

April 27, 2022December 5, 2017 15 Comments

The lure of making an illegal U-turn on a BC Highway can be tempting. You might think it’ll save you a bit of time. Or it’s just convenient. Or it’s a quick fix when going

Categories BC Travellers

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

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

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers

The Shocking Case of the Porthole Peeper

January 4, 2022February 8, 2017 6 Comments

“I was in a hurry.” That was the excuse a Vancouver Island driver gave when one of our CVSE officers stopped him on the Malahat for driving with a mere “porthole” of snow cleared from

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter

What You Need to Know About Winter Weather on the “Coq”

November 30, 2022December 22, 2016 12 Comments

[Note: Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nicola) Ltd. took over the highway maintenance contract for Service Area 14 as of July 1, 2019]. We’ve heard from a few folks recently asking how they can travel the

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance, Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Why Stopping Distances Matter More During the Winter

November 15, 2023December 16, 2016 9 Comments

It’s pretty simple, really. Stopping distance is the distance it takes your vehicle to come to a complete stop once you apply your brakes. The faster you are travelling, the longer it will take you

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter
roundabouts

How to Drive Roundabouts Safely in BC

September 23, 2020August 24, 2016 41 Comments

REDIRECTING … We are forwarding you to How to Safely Use Roundabouts in B.C. This new blog has updated information. If you do not get forwarded automatically, click here. This post has been superceded. Roundabouts

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos
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