How do you get your road condition information? Email alerts? On Twitter @DriveBC? Watching BC HighwayCams? Before DriveBC.ca, before the internet, before television, heck – even before radio, British Columbians have been exploring this beautiful
BC highway condition and event information is wide open. Open511 that is. That’s right. Valuable highway information (or data) such as: road closures and construction work, is now available to you as Open511– DriveBC. What
If you’ve ever driven down a mountain pass in British Columbia, you’ve likely looked up in awe at an off ramp rising up, up, up into… well, apparently nowhere. As the signs state, that is
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
When it comes to resources for the travelling public to inform them what’s happening on our BC highways, DriveBC is the authority. Whether it’s info on construction (current or planned), rock slides, avalanche, maintenance, special
Most jobs discourage playing with toys. But when it comes to maintaining the many amphibian crossings on Vancouver Island, only a mini monster truck will do. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure modified a remote
According to the dictionary, a bridge is: “a structure carrying a road, path, railroad or canal across a river, ravine, road, railroad or other obstacle”. That’s a basic and accurate description of a bridge to
If you drive BC, we want you to “know before you go” by making DriveBC a regular part of pre-trip planning. Whatever we can do to make using the traveller information system easier, we’re all