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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

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
Mount Robson Rest Area - BC Highway 16

Stopping at a BC Rest Area? Here’s What You Need to Know

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 48 Comments

One of the best ways to see BC is by hitting the road. (Who doesn’t love yelling “Road Trip!”?) To help plan your trip, and keep safety a priority, we recommend stopping at one of our

Categories BC Travellers, Trucking

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)

A Look Back at the BC Provincial Sign Shop

September 25, 2020June 18, 2020 25 Comments

Signage on BC highways is an essential tool to help us communicate information to motorists about the road ahead. Whether a regulatory, warning, or guide sign is called for, we make sure our signs are

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers
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
A snow plow clears snow from a BC Highway

Spotted! 3 Types of Snow Plows Found on BC Highways

November 9, 2020March 10, 2020 8 Comments

We often hear from the travelling public, asking questions about the types of snowplows at work on BC highways during the winter, and how they help keep travellers safe. We thought it would be helpful

Categories Road Maintenance

How to Drive Around Snow Plows in BC

September 23, 2021February 7, 2020 64 Comments

 Pop quiz! You’re driving a two-lane highway after a fresh dumping of snow. You spot the flashing lights of a snow plow up ahead in the left lane. You… a) Speed up to get

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter
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